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Philip Marcou, Planemaker |
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Written by Christopher Schwarz
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A planemaker from the Southern Hemisphere builds tools that excel on exotic woods. The Marcou plane incorporates design features from several types of tools to create an instrument that excels at planing woods that resist other edge tools. |
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The Marcou® S15A - Honing the blade |
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Written by Dave Trusty
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Being now obsessed with The Shiny Thing, I decided to test your honing by re-honing the blade with my now standard approach of Tormek honing paste and Carmelia oil, on a bit of nice flat MDF and on a leather strop. I noticed that the blade "out of the box" and after my first test-play wouldn't shave the hair off my arm (my usual sharpness test), so I had-at the blade-back and at your micro-bevel with the paste et al.
In 10 minutes I had an inch of polished back and a gleaming microbevel: an edge that duly took off the arm hairs. I think you made the perfect blade-edge geometry but didn't go as far as to polish the surfaces making up the edge to a mirror finish.
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