Veritas Apron Plane

Veritas Apron Plane

This small, Low Angle block plane is ideal for trim carpentry. At 14 oz it is half the weight of a standard block plane, a big plus if you carry it in your apron all day.

The 5-1/2″x 1-3/4″ ductile cast iron body takes knocks in stride. It has good hand feel; unique side wings allow for a comfortable and firm grip while providing side-stability for shooting. A combined feed and lateral adjustment mechanism makes setting easy and accurate.

Featuring a 12° bed angle and equipped with a lapped 25° bevel blade made of PM-V11 tool steel. The PM-V11 blade is 1/8″ thick and 1-1/4″ wide.

Made in Canada.

Specifications

• Ductile Cast Iron Body
• 5-1/4″ longx 1-3/4″ wide
• 14 ounces
• 12° bed angle
• 1-1/4″ wide x 1/8″ thick blade with 25° bevel
• PM-V11 steel blade

PM-V11 Steel

All of the Veritas bench, block and shoulder planes that we stock have PM-V11 steel blades. Veritas conducted extensive testing and determined that PM-V11 offers the best balance of hardness, edge retention and ease of sharpening in tool steels. It hones to a very fine edge and can easily be sharpened with commonly available sharpening abrasives.

From Veritas

PM-V11 is a powdered metal (PM) alloy. To form a PM alloy, constituent metals are melted and mixed together, then atomized, creating very small particles that cool and harden, forming a powder. This powder is screened to ensure consistent particle size, and then heated under pressure to form a billet. The billet is then rolled to the required thickness, ready to process as a conventionally smelted steel would be. The PM process yields a steel with a very fine grain structure that is uniform throughout.