Odate Crowning Plates Woodworking Sharpening Set Of 5 Retails For $500 For Sale

Odate Crowning Plates Woodworking Sharpening Set Of 5. Condition is New. My father bought these but then passed before he used them. They retail for $100 each.

“Odate crowning plates are a new product designed to make the task of putting a minute crown on handplane blades fast, easy, and utterly consistent. They are the brainchild of master craftsman Toshio Odate and are produced by Powell Manufacturing Co.”

“A slightly crowned handplane blade eliminates blade tracks and ridges where cuts overlap. The plate puts a crown just under 0.002 in. on a 2-in. smoothing-plane blade, for a very fine shaving that tapers to nothing at its edges. The four plates range from 60 microns to 9 microns and can be used dry or lubricated. They cut fast and wear well. The finest plate left a finish still in need of polishing on a 6,000-grit waterstone. For that reason, Powell makes a dressing plate that shapes a polishing stone to the same profile.”