I will need a scraper plane in the near future yet I have noticed L-N offers a 90 deg scraper blade for their low angle jack.
Are there any opinions on using a low angle jack with 90 deg scraper blade vs a scraper plane.
The application is a maple table top. I am making a kids table with a glued up maple top. I am worried about planing it when it is assembled and leveling any “issues” in the glue up.
Thanks in advance for any and all help.
Sam
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Hi Sam,
If you haven't glued up already, I suggest you try to assure the same grain direction for all the planks of the glue up. Not grain one direction on one plank, the other direction on an adjacent plank.
That way you might get away with conventional planing on the completed top - and not need the scraper plane at all. (Except perhaps for a hand scraper initially right at the glue lines).
Yes you might need a 50-degree, or 55-degree bevel angle - or even a 62-degree if its tiger stripped/reversing grain Maple. But with any/all of these, I would think you will get a better overall consistent surface than with a scraper. (Other opinions?)
Plus with conventional plane irons you shouldn't need to renew the edge anywhere near as often as on the softer scraper iron with its burr.
I use a LV 4 1/2 bevel up smoother @ 50-degrees for my final very light passes on both cherry and maple - and really like the results. Ready to finish.
Good Luck! Let us know how you make out.
I agree with cahudson down the line
I have the big LN scraper plane and a bunch of bevel up planes with regular and the steeper blades.
Yep Yep he is right.
PS: I went to freshen a glue up edge joint just before I applied the glue on some 8/4 stock a couple of days ago and the only freshly sharpened blade in the stack was a steep blade sharpened to 54º and I didn't pay attention to the grain direction and made a few passes before I thought about it and there was absolutely no tear out. That was bubinga and the grain reverses along the length of that plank anyway so would have been going against the grain in a portion of the length no matter which direction I decided to go.
Sharpening is everything though it has got to be right to get that result (against the grain).
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