Cap iron for a cambered blade

[Mike Holbrook]

Paul,

Thanks for that video. I have watched other videos from the same English gent and almost did not watch the whole video. Glad I continued on with it because he says several things that match my experiences/habits closely.

First of all I am less interested in perfectly flat surfaces and planes that take whisper shavings. I understand the interest in this type of work but it just does not apply to most of the work I want to do, which as the video points out more often involves thicker shavings. Whisper thin shavings seem to me to apply much more to how sharp one can get a blade and how precisely one can set a the chip breaker.

I was interested to see that he works his cambers and sets his chip breakers the way I do. He uses the full width of his blades, fading the camber out at both edges. I also habitually set my chip breakers at the far edges of the cambered blades to maximize shaving width. I suspect this is the point Steve Voigt and others are making above too.

I still may experiment with a LV chip breaker, just to see...