15° plane bevel?

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Stew

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I suspect you’re right!

it’s packed ina box now but I’ll take more pictures when it’s unpacked.
I do have a toothed blade as well but no suitable plane for it - it’s solid all the way up so won’t fit anything I have currently.
 

rickwhite

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If you google "Scraper plane", it does look very similar to a number of modern equivalents, made by Stanley, Veritas and others. Those all have fixed, and presumably rigid, blades in them, but maybe with smaller frogs and blades.
 

Robson Valley

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My sole concern is with the bevel angle. Having enough steel behind the edge to support it in service. I do not believe that 15 degrees is at all "bash-worthy" for a plane blade. In wood carving, I'll reserve 15 degrees for my straight and crooked knives where I anticipate thin chips and thin shavings, cut with sweeping hand and arm motions. Heavier service, no less than 25 degrees.

I make my own cabinet scrapers with 90 degree corner cutting edges.
My Stanley Bailey #5 plane has a 30 degree beveled blade which cuts like a dream in softwoods and hardwoods (rosewood and mahogany, for examples).
My spoke shaves are 28 degrees for some reason unknown to me but I've pulled them a mile in birch without a problem. My Stubai drawknife is 25 degrees. That cuts just fine for the rough-out shaping stage for a pole carving.
That's the physically demanding stuff.

All of my fine crooked carving knives are 12 degrees, maybe a little more.
 

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