Restoring plane and some odd things.

[Sean Hughto]

Depth adjustment definitely affects the opening as deeper means the blade has moved forward on the geometric plane defined by the angle of the frog relative to the sole of the plane. This shortens the distance between the cutting edge and the front of the mouth opening, that is, the mouth has become narrower. Lateral adjustment does not move the cutting edge forward; it simply rotates the blade on that single geometric plane so that the cutting edge is evenly projecting from the mouth at the same depth. The OP said using the lateral adjustment lever made the mouth opening "off" or uneven. I suppose if you were using your lateral adjustment lever to set up the plane to have one side take a significantly heavier shaving than the other (something I do occasionally, but mostly with spoke shaves, not planes), you are effectively making one side deeper than the other and have a slightly different mouth opening (narrower on the deeper side).

[Dan T Jones]

Sounds like I'm in Artillery school again.
Dan

[Brian Sommers]

OK I finally got everything straightened out and it works awesome now. I took it back to the Amish wood worker that I bought it from and he totally looked at it and grind it out again for me shaped it and and honed it really sharp. The problem was the angle on the blade was rounded it was not flat and he said your problem was it was writing on that curve and the cutting flat part of the blade couldn't get down on the wood. So he grounded it flat with almost a somewhat of a camber in it and now it works really well he set it up as a roughing plane. I'm very happy with it now. As a newbie I didn't really know what I was looking for and now I have a good base for what I'm aiming for so I think the next one I do will go much easier but I see that I'm going to need a good grinding wheel it was very easy doing that versus trying to make it flat on sandpaper as curved as it was.