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Re: Tools: Hock Blades, planes, choices, money...
By:Mike Bielski
Date: 1/5/2011, 1:03 am
In Response To: Tools: Hock Blades, planes, choices, money... *PIC* (Malcolm Schweizer)

Almost all of the fancy new planes are reproductions or slight variations of the Stanleys. They make them because a certain class of people will buy the new ones rather than find and tune up an old one.

I don't think you need to buy a Hock blade necessarily, but there is no comparison between any blade that came with an old plane and one of the new planes/blades by Hock, Veritas, or Lie Neilson. They are worth every penny in nothing else if not how long they hold a very keen edge. I had to sharpen my blades all of the time until I replaced them. It's a big time saver. Especially with hardwoods.

I think any of the three would be great. I have the Veritas. The next time I tune up a bench plane, I think I'll get a chip breaker/blade set, because I find it difficult to tune and adjust the chip breakers, and I'm pretty sure there would be a performance advantage because the Bailey chip breakers are pretty flimsy.

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Messages In This Thread

Tools: Hock Blades, planes, choices, money... *PIC*
Malcolm Schweizer -- 1/4/2011, 1:10 pm
Re: Tools: Hock Blades, planes, choices, money...
Kudzu / Jeff Horton -- 1/4/2011, 1:35 pm
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Brian Nystrom -- 1/5/2011, 12:21 pm
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Joe Whitman -- 1/4/2011, 1:36 pm
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 1/4/2011, 3:17 pm
Re: Tools: Hock Blades, planes, choices, money...
Malcolm Schweizer -- 1/4/2011, 4:57 pm
Re: Tools: Hock Blades, planes, choices, money... *PIC*
Joe Whitman -- 1/4/2011, 5:13 pm
Re: Tools: Hock Blades, planes, choices, money...
Malcolm Schweizer -- 1/4/2011, 9:34 pm
Re: Tools: Hock Blades, planes, choices, money...
Ian Cummins -- 1/5/2011, 8:13 pm
Re: Tools: Hock Blades, planes, choices, money...
Paul G. Jacobson -- 1/5/2011, 8:11 am
Re: Tools: This is the month for catalogs
Paul G. Jacobson -- 1/5/2011, 11:53 pm
You can tell that I am from Canada...
Robert N Pruden -- 1/4/2011, 3:31 pm
Re: You can tell that I am from Canada...
Malcolm Schweizer -- 1/4/2011, 5:04 pm
Hockey blades can be used as skegs
Robert N Pruden -- 1/5/2011, 9:29 am
Re: Hockey blades can be used as skegs
Malcolm Schweizer -- 1/5/2011, 10:44 am
Re: You can tell that I am from Canada...
Robert N Pruden -- 1/5/2011, 3:46 pm
Re: Tools: Hock Blades, planes, choices, money...
Dave Houser -- 1/4/2011, 4:23 pm
Re: Hock Blades - My Experience
Ken Blanton -- 1/4/2011, 5:32 pm
Re: Tools: Hock Blades, planes, choices, money...
Eric -- 1/4/2011, 6:19 pm
Re: Tools: Hock Blades, planes, choices, money...
Brian Nystrom -- 1/5/2011, 12:26 pm
Re: Tools: Hock Blades, planes, choices, money...
Eric -- 1/5/2011, 8:00 pm
Re: Tools: Hock Blades, planes, choices, money...
G New -- 1/4/2011, 8:39 pm
Re: Tools: Hock Blades, planes, choices, money...
Mike Bielski -- 1/5/2011, 1:03 am
Re: Tools: Hock Blades, planes, choices, money...
Mike Bielski -- 1/5/2011, 6:23 am
Re: Tools: Hock Blades, planes, choices, money...
John Bratton -- 1/5/2011, 11:13 am