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Your cart is empty.Big Horn 19318 high carbon steel blade for the Big Horn 19316 smoothing bench Jack plane. | caution: plane irons are extremely sharp. Take care when replacing them into plane.
Minimalist Hoarder
Reviewed in Canada on March 3, 2024
I bought this because it was the cheapest iron on Amazon that I could find, and I am a cheap woman and an optimist! Other reviewers correctly pointed out that this blade is made of decent steel and has finishing/QC issues mostly related to the back.I completely disregard the complaints about sharp edges and initial blunt bevel. If you do hand-tool woodworking, you will sharpen this day in and day out, and the sharp corners took 2 minutes to soften with sand paper.The blade also requires some initial cleaning, as it's a bit sticky and smells like some kind of petroleum-based coating (new blade smell?).I spent a couple of hours flattening the back of the blade, and still haven't removed all the nicks, but have cleared far enough from the cutting edge that, after sharpening and honing the bevel, can get that satisfactory smooth cut through the width of a sheet of paper.I'm removing a stars because of the nicks/pittings on the back (see the picture, and that's after hours of flattening), which you must absolutely get rid of to obtain a sharp and consistent edge. While removing them is possible, you have to grind off so much of the meat of the blade to achieve decent finish, and that could be avoided by better process control.
Bishop
Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2023
Came chipped and with sticky residue on it.
GB
Reviewed in Australia on October 17, 2023
Took forever for these to arrive. Once here we had to sharpen and hone them to be usable. It looked as if they were sharpened by using a hand grinder, a hand file and some 80 grit sandpaper. Cheap too buy so can't expect too much.
Cassandra B
Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2022
My expectations weren't all that high for the price point, but I did expect the blade to be square. Both blades were a 16th of an inch out of square making them completely unusable until I have the edge reground.Save your money and buy a better quality blade.
Perry Murphy
Reviewed in Canada on February 27, 2022
Very difficult to flatten the back of the iron. Rough machining on perimeter surfaces.
Lee
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2021
Works grate .
C & C
Reviewed in Canada on December 29, 2021
This blade is a 3rd of the price of something like a Veritas and it should be expected that some of the finishing work will need to be done by you, this is a large part of why this blade is less expensive.Don't fool yourself thinking that you can get something with a perfect flat cutting side out of the box for this price, that kind of finishing work is expensive, but thankfully easy to do yourself and you only have to do it once.I finished mine using sandpaper on a flat piece of MDF, grinding the flat back (cutting face) properly flat along the blade end then flipped it over and finished the beveled side using a jig. 60 to 120 grit.I then followed the same process to polish it up using wet-sandpaper glued to flat MDF 400 to 1500 grit in stages. I then sharpened and stropped the blade and installed it into my old Millers Falls 814 (#5 jack plane) and it shaves through wood like it was butter. The whole process took about an hour and aside from regular sharping will never have to be done again unless the cutting edge gets damaged which is true of any plane iron.It did take a lot of grinding down with the sandpaper to get it flat on the cutting side and I did notice some minor pitting at the corners but those got ground away while getting it flat and ended up being of no consequence. The bevel is pre-ground slightly out of square but that too is of little consequence as long as your final bevel that you grind on is square.All-in-all, I give this 4 out of 5 stars because it is a great value if you're willing to finish off the grinding yourself but it is quite rough out of the package.
Keith Sisson
Reviewed in Canada on July 9, 2020
Sadly the blade back is ground off at both corners. This has ruined the blade, doesn't cut at the corners about 1/4 inch. I'm not impressed with them even putting this up for sale.
Steve
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2020
Absolutely awful. I didn't expect it to be sharp "out of the box", but I also didn't expect the need to spend over an hour flattening the back before I could even begin to sharpen it.This, combined with the fact that the edges were sharper than the bevel, and needed to be smoothed before flattening the back, else I would have cut my hands to bloody ribbons just getting it to serviceable condition.As far as the steel quality, I'd guess hardened high carbon, nothing special, and eventually it took a shaving sharp edge. For that, it gets a lone star.Unless you have the patience, tools, and ability to get it to the point that it can do work, look elsewhere.
Lorraine L.
Reviewed in Canada on March 14, 2020
It could have been honed sharper.
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