It feels like I've spent the whole week trying to fix a mistake I made when sharpening this plane iron. I got the angle wrong, and trying to grind it out is taking an age :(
@quixoticgeek If you're doing it dry you might try the diamond wet with water. It will cut faster that way.
@firephoto I'm using lapping fluid.
@quixoticgeek I've been there before hand sharpening things and even on my tormek with a big chisel slick I made where it took an hour on the machine to get the angle finished after rough grinding it.
@firephoto I hope this is just A2 being incredibly hard. I have some O1 tool steel I'm planning to make things with, and I'd hate for it to be as hard to work as this.
@firephoto it's a bevel up plane. So bevel angle is critical.
@firephoto the plane I'm working on is a modern Stanley sweetheart no 62 low angle jack. It's iron is made of A2 steel.
@quixoticgeek I know the one I use the most is a 220 because I looked at the number yesterday, the other one is nicer looking but might just be older and the same thing. I needed a block plane and a lot of old rusty ones was on ebay so I have a variety now of small planes.
@firephoto I have two wooden coffin smoothers. One from Sweden one from .NL. I have a long wooden jointer of unknown origin. And then I have the new Stanley 62, and. Dictum no 4. I might get a block plane for Xmas.
@quixoticgeek I have an old Dunlap West Germany, a Record A151 flat spokeshave, Record 778, Kunz 79 side rabbet, and the collection of block planes. I don't use them much but that can be said for most things in the shop until I get the thing cleaned up a re-arranged, and then projects on the bench can be finished or moved.
@quixoticgeek Makes sense, I have one, or two but they're just small Stanley's I knock the corners off things. No fancy steel there I'm sure.