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Sharpening/Honing a bevel up plane iron..Need advice.

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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
I recently learned how to properly hone my bevel down plane irons. I know there are many methods to this and I spent some time reading about many of them and I think I am at a point where I understand and am comfortable honing the bevel down planes.

However, I was wondering if there was a different method I should use for my bevel up plane irons. These would be for my block planes. With my bevel down planes I will add a secondary bevel and then a third micro bevel and then hone the burr off the back. With the block plane blades should I do those the same way or should I be doing something different because of it being bevel up?

I know there may be many different opinions on it. I am just curious what others do.

Thanks
 
#5 ·
One thing to keep in mind is the angle of attack. if you have a low angle block plane with 12 degree bed angle and a blade that is sharpened at 25 degrees to make a combined angle of attack of 37 degrees. If you are adding secondary and micro bevels of lets say a total of 5 degrees you would be changing the angle of attack to 42 degrees. That is the beauty for bevel up planes like the ones offered by Lie-Nielesn and Veritas, it is easy to change (increase and decrease) the angle of attack.
 
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