Today saw the delivery of a Veritas combination plane and some blades to fit. Nice.
Two of the blades are tongue-makers, which each come with an identical metal mushroom – a 25mm long 5mm diameter stalk with a 12mm diameter faceted cap. The packaging seems to suggest this is a chip breaker – but I can find no instruction in the combination plane manual or elsewhere as to how it’s supposed to be installed & used.
The tongue blades do create a great tangle of shavings, as the two cutting halves churn out two strips of wood that immediately tangle and clog in the plane mouth.
I may be a daftie but I can’t see any obvious method of using this mushroom.
Does anyone have one of these planes and a tongue-cutting blade? Have you worked out how to use this chipbreaker mushroom? I’ve emailed Lee-Valley but as yet no reply.
Thanks in anticipation for any advice you can provide.
Lataxe
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Took me a while as well. This is a shaving deflector. You can swap it out for the depth stop. I have not noticed a difference yet with the deflector, but need more time with it.
I have the original version made by Stanley and used a fine setting that seems to avoid your problem. These planes seemed to be used by carpenters for the interior of closets and furniture makers for the back of cases.In both cases it seems that soft woods,pine,cedar,or poplar ,was used.I only used it once on hardwood
From a Lee Valley video for a small plough plane: "To prevent shavings from jamming in the mouth you have to replace the standard depth stop with the shaving deflector."
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