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Thanks Jacob. To clarify, I could perhaps have stated it better as "No other cap iron exerts a clamping force where an additional one is needed to resist the component of the cutting force that acts perpendicular to the iron, tending to bend it. That additional clamping force needs to be...

Woodbrains - Many thanks for your comments. I’m still experimenting with mouth widths and have been surprised by the improvements I’ve achieved with narrower mouths. Likewise with higher blade angles on difficult grain, which is another advantage of using bevel-up planes because it’s so easy to...

Thanks LuptonM. The nosepiece also has the chamfer you mention that's viewable from the top. It wouldn't be possible to set the plane up incorrectly (which in this context would mean fitting the nosepiece upside down) because the upper face of the nosepiece has a threaded boss that's used to...

I’ve been getting good results on otherwise difficult-to-plane workpieces by using a high blade angle and narrow mouth on an adjustable-mouth block plane, so wanted to experiment with the same technique using a bevel-up smoother. Therefore, I bought one of the new Veritas small bevel-up...