All about plane irons – a summary
Right, that’s quite enough about plane irons. Here is a summary: Sharpening bench planes – preparing the iron bench planes – grinding bench planes – …
Right, that’s quite enough about plane irons. Here is a summary: Sharpening bench planes – preparing the iron bench planes – grinding bench planes – …
Following the previous articles about iron, steel and plane cutters it may be tempting to view laminated cutters as an historical curiosity from a forgotten …
An earlier post, bench planes – laminated vs steel blades, asked why manufacturers went to the trouble of making plane irons by welding a steel bit …
Crucible steel was still in demand well into the twentieth century, despite competition from the steel created by the spectacularly successful (and much cheaper) large-scale …
By the 1850s the demand for the high quality steel – driven by the rapidly expanding railway, armaments and ship building industries – was beginning …
Sheffield made Crucible steel maintained a unassailed reputation as the best steel in the world for nearly two centuries, a success built on a combination …
Bar-iron (also known as wrought iron) was the raw ingredient for creating a form of steel known commonly as blister steel, and blister steel was …
As discussed in the previous post, plane blades from the 19th century were typically made of a wrought iron backing with a hard steel bit …
If you pick up a wooden bench plane from the the last century (there are lots of them about still!) the chances are it will …
Makers of edge tools, including plane blades, need to be concerned about several different properties of steel: Toughness: This is the ability of the steel …