Toshio Odate on Japanese plane set up
In a previous post, I wrote about trying to understand the difference between the setup of the sole for a Japanese plane for smoothing operations and jointing/truing operations, and relayed information that Toshio Odate told me at Woodworking in America. Recently, Frank Vucolo sent me this article by Toshio Odate from American Woodworker in 1993 explaining this in more detail, including this on the setup of the sole of a Japanese jointer plane:
Planes set up for truing are for making surfaces straight and flat, usually before marking out joints. When you prepare a plane sole for truing, the object is to relieve the sole so the plane block contacts the work at two places — the front and back. The cutting edge is set at this same height. Since these three points are even, the plane can create a perfectly flat surface, because it removes only the high spots of the wood. Of course, nothing is automatic — you need skill and practice to plane a flat surface.
It’s good to know that my memory still seems to work pretty well, even though there was some concern that Odate’s information was not understood correctly.
(Thanks to Frank Vucolo for the article.)
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