I see Jacob's at this craic again, and as usual, being way off the mark.
He doesn't understand, or just having the rise, and I'm taking the bait.
Either way he works hard in effort to confuse folks.
There's a big difference between getting the cap to work effectively vs what Rob demonstrates,
and he doesn't hide it either, since the waters are indeed muddy on his channel.
It should be easily understood by all, (newcomers included) by now.
Ya'know it's 2012 when DW made this widely known, again!...
as some folks like above, have disputed the usefulness of having a plane which won't tear out for some strange reason, yet a premium marking gauge slipping would be catastrophic.
Perhaps they could see tearout and shoddy marking lines might become shabby chic in time perhaps.
Those same folk mentioning influenced shavings from the cap iron, being similar to scraping or whatever daftness, or whatever silly speculation about cherry picked timbers,
and suggesting to watch the most untrustworthy of folks on YT instead...
which in turn likely lead many folks to the likes of premium tooling, when the going gets tough.
That is... whatever percentage of those who can afford it.
Maybe I should try buying stock shares in the likes of those companies,
and shut me mouth instead, as there is much premium tool pushing coming from all on these here forums.
Anyway fair play to 1Will for not falling for the usual ignorant rhetoric of the ignorant joiners,
or those who hold dear their pre 2012 shenanigan planes,
as only one remaining fella was actually using the cap iron before then, and was actually posting about it on the forums, that has been Warren Mickley.
Folks can pretend to debate this, but the proof is in the shavings,
Try finding that on VHS, it's obvious either everyone else had their heads in the sand,
or skilled folks who simply didn't know, guessing Klausz for instance,
or they thought they had this down, like Blackburn for instance, who still suggests having a tight mouth at the same time.
That might work with a Norris or whatever infill panel plane with a specially fettled "wear" inside the mouth,
but it's for no reason at the same time, since a panel plane won't be chamfering small bevels,
and would lead folks to something which isn't making full use of the cap iron,
i.e not producing shavings of decent thickness, and could lead to folks being lazy with their
camber, and thus never truly finding out how effective a double iron plane can be.
