Pm V11 Blade. What does this mean in practice? I was warned that this blade does not fit a ln plane. It is has good edge retention, impact.
Combined with the 12° bed angle and 25° blade bevel, this yields an effective cutting angle of 35°.
This graph presents performance on the impact and wear tests. Click on image to enlarge. It is inherently more durable than steels produced using ordinary manufacturing processes. A collection of information on various blade steels and other materials such as talonite and titanium including a summary of personal comparisons. Once dulled, the edge can be quickly returned to a sharp condition using water stones or other common sharpening methods. It is has good edge retention, impact. That's a rather technical name and veritas describe it as an 'innovative proprietary alloy' but. On examination i discovered that this was due to the cut out on the ln chip breaker being set about 1/4 further back than on the stanley and the clifton chip breakers.
