Originally Posted by
Patrick Chase
You can make a blade bend further away from the middle of the frog that way by increasing the cap-iron's preload, though only to a point as the cap iron is quite weak relative to the blade. You can't go the other way without decreasing the cap iron's preload, and that causes other problems such as jammed shavings at the blade to cap-iron interface.
I must be lucky in finding the sweet spot of cap iron tension.
Here is something of mine from before David Weaver posted about setting the chip breaker:
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthre...ker-to-Jointer
Scroll down to post #27 & #28, Chips Ahoy or is that a Cap Iron?, for a little bit about cap iron tuning.
jtk
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