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Originally Posted by printer2
Hope no one minds my asking Charles, checked out your planing the back vid. What angle is that plane?
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The blade is honed at 30 degrees, the bedding angle is 12 degrees, a low angle jack plane. This is the plane:
https://www.lie-nielsen.com/product/...lane?node=4065.
In the video, a LN 4-1/2 smoothing plane is partially in view to the left (as viewed). It is also honed at 30 degrees, though has a 50 degree bedding angle. Both work just fine on the zircote I'm planing: I used the 4-1/2 for the sides, as I was too lazy to sharpen the low angle jack plane again and the 4-1/2 was already sharpened. (My thickness sander just hates zircote. Zircote doesn't much like my thickness sander either - it just burns. Hence, hand planing.)
For most woods, I find the choice of angles is less important than to have the plane well setup, well sharpened and the throat set appropriately.