PM-10V blade No 60 1/2 Block Plane - 35° Micro Bevel

This PM-10V plane blade is made to suit our 60 1/2  Block Plane. The major bevel is ground at 25°, we have installed a 35 degree micro bevel for genreral use. Powdered Metallurgy Powdered Metallurgy Tool Steel is the new era of tool steel. The steel ‘mix’ contains high vanadium carbides. It comes from a process of melting the constituent metals that make up the steel and then mixing them together. Next, they are atomised to make a powder consisting of minutely small particles. The particles are screened to ensure uniformity and then under pressure they are heated to form the tool steel billet. This method produces a tool steel that is extremely uniform with a very fine grained structure. What does this mean to the woodworker? Put simply, this tool steel has higher impact resistance than O1 & A2 tool steel. More importantly it has amazing resistance to abrasion, that is, great wear resistance so your blades stay sharper much longer. Users say over double the time of O1 & A2 steel. The blades sharpen easily to a very keen edge. Our blades are machined, carefully heat treated to the manufacturing mill’s specifications by our metallurgist , surface ground flat and primary bevels prepared for fine honing in Adelaide. Depending on the size, our after market blades are 10% to 30% thicker than the originals giving you a more rigid blade resisting chatter and more weight (heft) in the right spot lowering the centre of gravity.  Technical Powdered Metallurgy Information Page here.