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You said, you were planing rough boards. Does the problem persist, once you got the surface smooth? I think, you got a pretty good demonstration about the reason for a wider mouth on scrub planes.
And you said it yourself: “The plane which works best shows a little more room between the irons and the front of the mouth.”
I think, the only solution, apart from getting a scrub plane or making the mouth of one plane wider, is to take thinner shavings. Perhaps you should go as far as to retract the blade completely and then move it down, until you get the first shavings.
In fact, it seems, that the blade is very far down on the second picture.
I also think, that the blade is seated to far forward on the second picture. This might be the reason, why the shavings are folded. There is no space for the shaving to go up, and therefore it runs straight against the edge of the cap iron and breaks (so you really have a chip breaker 😀 ). It might be better to line up the frog with the rear of the opening.
But I am not an expert and this might be completely wrong.
Dieter
- This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by Hugo Notti.
- This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by Hugo Notti.