Blade Installation - VERITAS 05P51.01 Manual

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The Veritas Small Plow Plane is a joinery plane, perfect for cutting grooves, such as
used for drawer and box bottoms, cabinet backs, and frame-and-panel construction.
It is also capable of cutting small rabbets (grooves with one open side).
The ductile cast iron body is accurately machined with a 45° blade bed. The plane
comes with a /
1
available separately. All blades are A2 tool steel and come with the face lapped.
The fence has been sculpted to fi t the hand for comfort and proper registration of
the plane to the workpiece.
No tools are required for any of the settings – blade installation, fence or depth
stop. The unique depth stop clamp provides spring pressure to hold the stop when
making adjustments (up to
setting the fence fast and easy.
Depth Stop
Knob
Depth Stop
Figure 1: Plane components.

Blade Installation

Caution: Be aware that the blade is sharp; careless handling can result
in serious injury.
To install a blade, back off the lever
cap knob and the blade guide knob.
Slide the blade (bevel down) into
position on the machined bed such
that the slot at the top engages the
disc on the blade adjustment knob.
Turn the blade guide knob in until
it just contacts the side of the blade.
(This will ensure that the blade is
positioned against the machined bed
side and properly aligned with the
skate.) Lightly clamp the blade with
the lever cap knob.
2
" wide blade; other blade widths (
4
/ "). The large brass knobs (with locking collets) make
1
2
Handle
Blade Adjustment
Knob
Blade
Fence Locking Knob
/
1
Lever Cap Knob
Lever Cap
Body
Skate
Blade Adjustment
Knob
Lever Cap
Knob
Lever Cap
Figure 2: Blade installation.
", / ", / " and
3 5
8 16 16
Fence
Blade
Guide Knob
/ ") are
3
8
Blade
Guide Knob
Blade