07 Plane Iron Metal Type

by lwllms, Sunday, May 17, 2009, 22:27 @ delsur777
edited by lwllms, Sunday, May 17, 2009, 22:38

I'm not sure when we'll heat treat bench plane irons again. We have more irons for bench planes than we have beech for bench planes. I haven't been able to find any 16/4 beech for nearly 2 years. You never know, we may start using googaboola or some other crappy wood better suited for mantle jewelry than hand planes.

You'll have to excuse me for being a little blunt but I'm pretty disgusted with wood suppliers right now. We heated the shop part of last winter with the World's most expensive fire wood and are now trying to get a supplier to pick up the garbage he sent at twice what he quoted and we can't even use the stuff. I'm not going burn anymore high-dollar wood.