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Ah…I forgot to say: Yes, you can put a heavier camber on your scrub plane, but my experience is that this gives you a thicker, but narrower shaving. You cut deeper per pass, but need more passes. A modest (but definite) camber run across the grain (rather than along it) might be the fastest way to hog off material, if you can control the spelching. You want just enough camber to go as deep as your deepest cut without burying the corners of the blade. More camber than that that may not be an advantage. This answer would change if you were hogging off an edge rather than a face. With a big camber, like on a “real” scrub plane, you can take off amazing amounts of wood per pass from an edge. The surface is heavily dished, but that goes flat quickly with a normal bench plane or by scooting the scrub to the left and to the right for a pass before the normal bench plane.