Originally Posted by
Kees Heiden
Dear Larry Williams,
First, nobody claims that this is anything new. We do know that some loud voices on the Internet, yours among them, claimed that the chipbreaker is a rather useless appendage in a plane. Because normal woodwork training is almost extinct these days, and because the old books are not very accessible for everyone, the internet is a valuable information source for us. The new presentation of the Kato video was lucklily very convincing and made us clear that your kind of information about chipbreakers is in fact faulty.
The chipbreaker works. It works very well. It isn't too difficult, but applying the knowledge to different situations means a learning curve. Nothing wrong with that, learning is fun. Wear on the chipbreaker isn't something I have witnessed yet, but I hear from Warren that he hasn't seen it happen in his planes yet.
The exact distance from the edge isn't so important, there is range of usefull settings. It just needs to be a lot closer then I thought in the past.
And when are you going to correct the errors in the article about chipbreakers on your website?
Have a nice new year, and I wish you all the luck with making and selling your steeply pitched wooden planes.