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Over the past half-century, plane manufacturers have tended to focus their design efforts on reducing manufacturing costs, as opposed to making planes that work better. When designing our planes, we chose to focus on better adjustment and feed mechanisms, blades that hold a finer edge, and innovative structural improvement to eliminate blade vibration.
Veritas® planes are manufactured from fully stress-relieved ductile cast iron, which is superior to earlier materials as it maintains its dimensions after machining and will take harder knocks without cracking. All machining is done to a high level of accuracy in our own factory. This ensures a precision fit between parts, for fast and accurate adjustment. The sides and soles of all planes are surface ground to a high degree of finish; the soles are flat and the sides are square to the sole. With the exception of the Scraper and Apron planes, the blades are made from 1/8" thick A2 tool steel, hardened to Rc60-62. The A2 alloy takes a keener edge, is more resistant to chipping and dulls less easily than other plane blades.