GG,

  I was thinking about the whole chipbreaker thing.

  Wouldn't the problem be eliminated by bars (creating
slots) in the slot of the blade which would be used to
control depth of cut.  I'm thinking that the bars
could be sawn out as they outlive their usefulness,
allowing the chipbreaker to move back further as
sharpening decreases the overall length of blade?  The
depth adjustment yoke would have to be short enough
not to contact the chip breaker.  The math could be
worked out as to how tight the slots would have to be
together in order to make this work...

Anything I'm missing?

Ken Cutting

PS - the hole in the slot, for the cap iron screw,
would have to be toward the cutting edge as well

OH! Some really cool info can be accessed about chip
breakers through Brent Beach's site - in his links go
to (I think) Steve Elliots pages...  really cool stuff
about cap irons as chipbreakers! Go figure!  To sum it
up - 50 to 80 bevels on cap irons set very close to
the edge (around .005" I think) produce excellent
surfaces with no throat.  Check it out!  I'm sure that
this will spark a debate that, set that close, it is
really just scraping but still seems like and idea to
me... I already checked with Lie-Nielsen and they
would regrind their bevels on their chipbreakers if
requested - Reverend?

Ken Cutting
Really signing-off this time

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