What is a low angle jack plane for?
The Veritas low-angle jack plane is a versatile bench plane. It is ideal for shooting miters, working end grain, and initial smoothing. Blade is the same size as other Veritas bevel-up planes, allowing blades of various bevel angles to be interchanged between planes.
Are Veritas planes any good?
A great value in premium hand tools Feature for feature, Veritas planes are the equal of other premium planes, but they’re significantly less expensive. Considering what you get, and the hours of tune-up labor you’ll save, they’re very reasonably priced.
What angle is a low angle jack plane?
The blade supplied with the low-angle jack plane has a 25° bevel, which is ideal for fine trimming work on end-grain softwood and some hardwoods. Ring-porous hardwoods such as oak may require a 30° bevel to prevent blade edge failure.
What is the difference in use between a jack plane and smoothing plane?
In the case of smoothing a large workpiece such as a tabletop, the traditional method involves starting with a jack (or jointer) plane in both diagonal directions before going with the grain to remove any high spots. Then, you switch over to a smoothing plane to “further smooth” the surface.
What is the difference between a jack plane and a smoothing plane?
What Is a Number 62 plane?
62 was the largest. It was produced between 1905 and 1942*. It is often referred to as a butcher’s block plane, giving you an idea of one use it was designed for. It features an adjustable mouth and a 12° blade angle in a full-size bench plane scale.
Are Veritas chisels worth it?
To sum up, Veritas bench chisels are great! Nice balance, ready to go right out of the box, good steel that holds and edge well while sharpening quickly. Designed to take a serious beating with an innovative hybrid tang/socket and torrefied Maple handles.
What is the first hand plane I should buy?
Your first purchases should be a low-angle block plane and a shoulder plane, above. Both help you put a refining touch on the less-than-perfect cuts produced by your power tools. For example, with a few strokes, a finely tuned low-angle block plane shaves burn marks or fuzz off end grain that saw blades leave behind.
What is the sharpening angle for a plane blade?
25 degrees
The primary bevel for chisels and plane blades is normally 25 degrees (a time-tested angle). If you look at the blade diagram above its perfectly acceptable, from a sharpness perspective, to hone the primary bevel flat and hone the back of the blade flat and where these two meet you can achieve a sharp cutting edge.
Can you use a jack plane as a smoothing plane?
Set it up with a minutely cambered iron and take a light shaving and you can use the jack as a long-ish smoothing plane.
How big is a Veritas low angle jack plane?
The plane is 15″ long, 2 3/4″ wide and weighs in at 5 lb 12 oz. You will appreciate the way this plane (with a toe that is one third the length of the sole) registers to the workpiece.
What can you do with a low angle jack plane?
Our low-angle jack plane is ideal for shooting miters, working end grain, and initial smoothing. We have designated it as a 62 1/2 because of its generous size and weight, low center of gravity, and radically set-back mouth. This is a bevel-up plane, with a 12° bed angle similar to a low-angle block plane.
How is the mouth on a Veritas plane adjustable?
The plane’s adjustable mouth can be closed to a narrow slit for fine shavings with minimum tear-out or opened for heavier cuts. All of this can be done quickly and accurately with the front locking knob and the unique mouth adjustment screw. The large hardwood front knob and rear handle provide a comfortable grip.
How big is the blade on a Veritas tool plane?
Blade is 2-1/4″ wide, 3/16″ thick, made of A2 or O1 tool steel and lapped on non-bevel side to flatness tolerance of 0.0002″ or better over working surface; average roughness surface finish of 5 microinches (0.000005″) or better