Welcome Ryan,

I can 100% relate to your story. I too started woodworking to get away
from a high tech career by day. It's wonderful to know that you are
making something, and there's no schedule!

As for your wooden plane, I'm not clear which angle is 15 degrees. Are
you talking about the bevel/bezel angle? If so, I would think that 15
degrees is a little low. It should be easy to fix, though, just grind it
back a tiny bit to insure a strong edge, and then use micro-bezels at a
more appropriate angle. There's no need to waste a lot of blade, you
just don't want a long bezel hanging out too much unsupported iron. Use
a light cut, and after twenty years or so you'll have used enough of the
blade up that you won't remember where the old bezel ended.

If you're talking about the bed angle (the angle the bed makes with the
sole), then 15 degrees is way to low for a wooden plane to hold up, but
then I don't think such a plane would be made in a coffin shape anyway.

Bretton

Who counts six bios yesterday, and is who is tickled pink to have
received a copy of Wayne's 2Mb powerpoint presentation on making a YB
plane?

-- 
Bretton Wade (aka Noz Moe King) in Bellevue, WA
http://www.galoot-coop.org/