Reply To: Stanley #4 1/2 type 19 restoration or junk?

It will definitely help with the tear out if you close the throat up some. You may want to experiment some with positioning the chip breaker closer to the edge. It needs to be good and sharp, if it won’t easily shave hairs off the back of your arm it isn’t sharp enough.

Also, are you sure that square is actually square? No offense but your plane looks a lot better than your square.