Popular Woodworking Magazine » Chipbreakers http://www.popularwoodworking.com Woodworking advice, woodworking plans, woodworking projects and woodworking blogs Mon, 20 May 2013 13:35:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 More Experiments with Chipbreakershttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/more-experiments-with-chipbreakers http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/more-experiments-with-chipbreakers#comments Sun, 15 Jul 2012 01:28:41 +0000 Christopher Schwarz http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=214671
More Experiments with Chipbreakers

This week I’ve been surfacing a lot of wood by hand, from pedestrian sugar pine to funky metals that have wood-like properties (e.g. purpleheart). And all the while I have been testing, testing, testing things with my chipbreakers and the cutting angle of the iron of my handplane. Huh? You might say. Yes, there might … Read more »

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Reconsidering Chipbreakers as Not Totally Evil

I have always disliked chipbreakers, which clog a handplane all too easily. But tonight I dislike them a little less. After the recent spate of discussions about a series of Japanese films on chipbreakers (here is the complete and translated film) and some encouragement from woodworker David Charlesworth, I decided to experiment with the position … Read more »

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