What to do w/ old planer knives???

Excellent parting tool materials if you are a turner. Also good for
tiny scrapers.

Really good for custom ground bits for hollowing or tools.

Robert

A few things come to mind; marking knives (left and right handed);
scratch stock for a beading tool; mini drawknife for fine work;
shiv......just in case some jail time is in your future.... :-)

Mutt

"Rob V" <[email protected]> wrote in news:it8of.4811$3Z.4087
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> Just replaced the knives in my planer.
> Seems ashamed to toss out some good steel.
>
> Any ideas??
> (they have been resharpened a few times already - so other than that)
>
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Just this weekend, I broke one of my 12" blades into thirds. They snap
quite easily in a vise. I made one piece into a nice double bladed marking
knife in less than an hour.

-G

"Rob V" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Just replaced the knives in my planer.
> Seems ashamed to toss out some good steel.
>
> Any ideas??
> (they have been resharpened a few times already - so other than that)


If they are resharpenable, keep resharpening them. I know the ones in my
planer can be resharpened at least 10 to 15 times.

Marking knife?

That skew chisel that would be nice for getting into the corners of a
dovetail but just isn't used enough to justify buying commercial?




"Rob V" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Just replaced the knives in my planer.
> Seems ashamed to toss out some good steel.
>
> Any ideas??
> (they have been resharpened a few times already - so other than that)
>
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
> You can reply to me at
> r_b_v at v_e_r_z_e_r_a doht c_o_m
> (remove the _ to get the address)
>
>

Make chisels and small handplane blades? Probably do it all with a grinder.

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