chisel & plane iron angles

[nickw]

Seems to me there's very little point in collating this stuff as you will end up with a lot of contradictory answers. Some people like 25 deg, some 30, others ooh somewhere about there. And of course it changes depending on the timber being worked. Some like a hollow grind, some like it convex, and then there are the flat-earthers. A scan of any of the woodworking online and printed resources will provide plenty of examples to back this up. There is no definitive answer or set of answers; don't waste your time trying to find one. You may as well try to find a definitive answer to the tails or pins first question.

[jfc]

Thats true , i dont even know what angle mine are but they are sharp .

[tnimble]

That's true but still it a very good idea to have. This or any other forum would not be the best plave. An wikipedia article "common blade angles (woodworking)" would be more suitable. That articcle can refer to a few arcticles on planes, chisels, sharpening methods etc. After this a few tables follow with the most common used angle of each type of iron like:

Plane blades:

	Soft Wood	Hard Wood	Irregular grained wood
Bevel down smoother	...	...	...
Bevelup smoother	...	...	...
Combination plane blade	...	...	...

Chisels

	Soft Wood	Hard Wood	Irregular grained wood
Pairing	...	...	...
Mortice	...	...	...

[mrgrimsdale]

Hmm so that'd mean having 3 sets of everything?
In the real world you just sharpen everything to about 30 deg with the quickest method you know, and that's that.

cheers
Jacob

[Head clansman]

Hi all

Guys guys , sorry and girls, that not what my idea was all about it about collating as much info on all woodworking tools from all the different tool manufactures from all over the world going back as far as possible to when records started right up to present day and then adding future tools as they become available or are updated , it's so somewhere theres a complete history of our tools that all us woodies use in some form or the other. Then have it set up here on the forum somehow, that would be up to the administrator how it would be best done , my idea was to first show each manufactures product along with there spec to that product. not what any well meaning individual may think.

Its not about common angle being used by many on this plane or that plane or they differ if your using hardwood etc thats up to the individual, its not about websites or wikipedia remember not everybody is comfortable searching lots & lots of website many people find it very difficult some simple don't have the time either but would love to know some history maybe about one particular tool they may have acquired not knowing where to look for that information it about having all the manufactures history on this forum ready for everyone to view. .

I'm sure as on other forum theres a lot of people who just sit on the side reading to frightened to ask how to do this or that , its about helping other's who are not trades men or women for what ever reason and are just woodies in one form or the other who are woodworking from all walks of life from all over the world.

I'm sure there must be mountains of info out there in books on website manufacture have it as well stored in archive's old video's you know where to look for it the list just go's on and on the difficult part will be collating it all , any idea's

[mrgrimsdale]

I think this is it, no need to look any further. The net that is. Masses of info, collated for us by google. Contributions from all over the place. Even as we speak I bet somebody somewhere is posting up something interesting about old tools, which nobody knew.
Just a point of detail - the biggest problem with info about traditional practices, old tools etc is that most of it wasn't ever written down. So it's a bit like archaeology - piecing the evidence together from bits n bobs.

cheers
Jacob

cheers
Jacob

[Head clansman]

hi Jacob

people live and then die, companies start and finish dozens of them by the day websites come and go like there going out of fashion ever day . All that info is then lost forever , all the more reason to collate it all together.

[tnimble]

mjmpropman said:

Hi all

Guys guys , sorry and girls, that not what my idea was all about it about collating as much info on all woodworking tools from ...

Its not about common angle being used by many on this plane or that plane or they differ if your using hardwood etc thats up to the individual,

The title is a bit confusing "chisel & plane iron angles"

its not about websites or wikipedia remember not everybody is comfortable searching lots & lots of website many people find it very difficult some simple don't have the time either but would love to know some history maybe about one particular tool they may have acquired not knowing where to look for that information it about having all the manufactures history on this forum ready for everyone to view. .

What you describe is what an encyclopaedia is about. Capturing as much information togeth so when some want to know something they do not have to go to many places and read various books. All information togeth in one source with references to where to find more. So agina wikipedia would be the right spot for such a thing. Fora such as this one can reference the head articles.