I read that some of the replacement blades for the Veritas spokeshaves were no longer available.  I emailed Lee Valley about this.

 

I see that some of the Veritas spokeshave blades are no longer available, including directly from Veritas.  Is Lee Valley going to discontinue this line, or are you going to continue providing the PM-V11 as replacement blades?

 

This is their reply:

Thank you for your e-mail.  We were advised Veritas® was discontinuing their A2 and O1 steel blades for their spokeshaves but the PM-V11® blades would and are still being produced for them.  As such, we have discontinued the A2 and O1 versions of the spokeshaves and won’t be getting any more of these in stock once we sell out of what we still have available.

 

 

Just information for everyone.

Great information Tom, I have Veritas spokeshaves, got them a few years ago, I don't even remember the type of metal the blades are but I think I got the softer metal, because my theory was, I wanted to be able to hand sharpen them and quickly, and with the round shave, using a slip stone is about the only way to sharpen it, and having the softer metal would make it that much easier to sharpen? My theory anyways, I have been happy with the O1 steel. I don't see ever having to replace them though, they should last my lifetime.

Interesting.  Good to know you can still get blades.  Friend asked me to borrow mine, told him no.  He gave me funny look.  Told him I cannot loan you what I don't have.  What a tool you don't have? he asked me.   Yeah the lottery thing hasn't worked out for me yet.