What you see here is the Veritas Low-Angle Block plane-yet so much more. To start off I replaced the standard blade with a heavy-duty 1/8″ thick, 50 degree iron. To that I added a secondary bevel bringin’ this little baby just under 55 degrees! Amazing!
That’s somewhere in the ‘York Pitch Ballpark” (Galoot, Galoot)
“But wait there’s more…much more!”
From there I added these incredible ‘after-market’ style wooden front knob and rear tote. Incredible! These elements combined with it’s adjustable front mouth and we have ourselves a plane to be reckoned with. It kind of morphed into a quazy-miniature smoothing plane somewhere in the #3 range, if we were talking Bench planes…I use this when all my other planes fail, difficult grain and tear out be damned!
“And that’s not all!”
Flip this thing back into the low-angle block and you can remove the front shoe and add a chamfer guide.
“Stop it! You’re killing me!”
Seriously folks, this is one crazy-little doggy of a hand plane, with so many accessories it’s enough to drive you wild…So you say, how does it perform as the low-angle block plane it was designed as?
I can’t say really, I haven’t put down my low-angle Lie-Nielsen Bronze long enough too find out!
Cheers.
2 Comments
Did you fashion these “after market” bits yourself, or were they adapted from something else?
-ben
Ben,
Thanks for the question and sorry this response took me so long…Been a bit like a rat in a maze this past few weeks. To answer your question, all of the ‘extra items’ are off the shelf accessories available through Lee Valley Tools.
Cheers!