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

For me, bevel up or bevel down, sharpening remains the same: grind primary bevel, hone secondary bevel, followed by stropping.

-- Div @ the bottom end of Africa. "A woodworker's sharpest tool should be his mind."

Make sure you polish the back of the blade first, then take care of the bevel … same as with bevel-down blades.

—Gerry

-- Gerry -- "I don't plan to ever really grow up ... I'm just going to learn how to act in public!"

thank´s for the question Dan
allso a thing I have to know about in the near future

Dennis

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.

-- Adam, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

The web site is http://www.leevalley.com/US/wood/page.aspx?p=52414&cat=1,41182,52515
Scroll down to “A. Veritas® Bevel-Up Jointer Plane, A2 $275.00”
Select the link for “Inst”

Gives you a nice instruction for sharpening and honing

This works for any bevel up plane

-- David in Damascus, MD

thank´s for the tip David

Dennis