raffo
Established Member
The same people who gushed about cap irons and tool steels, and all the rest were some of the same people who used to gush over Clark & Williams single iron smoothers at a 55* pitch with an ultra-tight mouth. They weren't wrong, they weren't lying about their results, but that just became old news on the internet. It was simply time to move on to the NEXT BIG THING.
I think you are misinformed. The debate about the cap iron went on at woodcentral in 2012. Larry Williams, from Clark & Williams, argued that single iron planes from the 18th century were superior to double iron planes. David and Derek participated in that debate.
What people are you talking about? Why would you care what people prefer?
There's no virtue in stubbornly sticking to what one has been doing when a possibly better way is available. If one was all for tight mouths and high bedding angles and then changes his mind, there's nothing wrong with that. It's not following a fad.