Ttrees
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Aah that's what you're looking for, and explains why you've not got an answer.Tom, as a woodworker that uses planes amongst other woodworking tools my interest in this thread was prompted because of the 'influenced shavings' descriptor. That I've had things published over the years is not relevant that I can see. I admit that I seldom watch woodworking videos on places like YouTube or wherever, so the words and filmed guidance of such names as Cosman, Sellers, and others frequently mentioned on forums don't reach me directly very much. I'm also nowadays not a big reader of woodworking articles, whether they be in print, blogs, and perhaps other formats. That I now spend little time reading or viewing such information doesn't indicate a lack of interest in me about woodworking techniques and knowledge. In my early days as a learning furniture maker I avidly read books, woodworking journals, and so on. Reading about woodworking and viewing woodworking videos by contemporary authors and presenters for the most part mainly repeats information I absorbed quite a number of years ago.
But yes, new stuff does come along, and sometimes the new stuff is old stuff that's been forgotten. It can't be denied that although I was aware of such techniques as close set cap irons can help to control tear out because that's what I was taught by grumpy old codgers. I was also taught how to tune up a plane through such techniques as flattening the sole, good seating of the frog, flattening the flat side of the iron, matching the cap iron to the flat side of the blade, adjusting the slope of the leading edge of the cap iron, and so on all with the intention of leading to improved or optimum performance.
One person whose views on planing topics I did pay attention to was David Weaver. He said some interesting things on another forum about all the stuff in the above paragraph, and more. We eventually corresponded directly about the topic of reducing or eliminating tearout with hand planes and I experimented through taking on board stuff he said (including the horribly named, but effective, 'unicorning' thing) and I found he made valid points. Basically, through our discussions I was able to get my smoothing planes to work better again than they had been working. I don't recall David talking about 'influenced shavings'. But maybe he did and it's simply slipped my mind.
So, I'm not incurious about woodworking subjects, I like to think I'm selective. What did get my curiosity was the influenced shavings descriptor. I'd seen it bandied about, but I didn't know what it was meant to refer to. Now I think I know: basically it seems to mean how you set up your plane 'influences' how it performs, including the 'influence' it has on the shavings (type of, for e.g.) and this has an 'influence' on tear out, or lack of it.
Still, I'm never going to go straight from planing to polishing. There's always some sanding has to be done between planing and polishing. Quite often in my working life there's been little or no hand planing involved in a woodworking project. It's been a case of straight from sanding to polishing, but that's common in a commercial woodworking environment, and I've done plenty of that in my working life alongside one-off custom pieces where the hand tools play a much greater role. Slainte.
The "influence" reference is from the Kato and Kawai documentation, which is mentioned
in the first article which I learned from David W (D_W here)
and seems like he might not have suggested this to you, because the below link was altered in some way or another, which he wasn't satisfied with at all.
Here you go
https://www.woodcentral.com/articles/index.php?page=673&tags=handtools&search=&op=AND
All the best
Tom