I’ve always been curious about how a toothed blade performs and how and when it should be used in stock preparation. It’s not a common type of blade for a handplane and so far I’ve only seen one in a cabinet shop. Is was mounted on a wooden bodied plane which looked like a small smoother and I was told it was used to create some grooves on the face of boards when gluing them face to face.
In the following video (published by Lie-Nielsen on YouTube) Deneb Puchalski talks you through the benefits of using a toothed blade and quickly demonstrates how you can use it to dress the face of a curly maple board with massive tearout.
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I love this video. Christopher Schwarz shows a good demo of this in his part of “The Joiner and Cabinetmaker” while prepping the book matched panel for his chest of drawers project too. I have to try this.