Wanderin' Bill Taggart wrote:

>IOW, with the frog back far enough to have an opening for shavings to pass
>thru, the blade hits the rear edge of the mouth, and cannot bed properly on
>the frog. If I move the frog forward a bit to make the leading edge of the
>frog even with the rear lip of the mouth, there's almost no mouth at all,
>and it chokes.

Don't overlook the cap iron as a cause of choking with a narrow mouth.

My Type 11 #3C (small smoother, Jeff) has a Hock blade in it. The mouth
is very tight. I had problems with it choking until I realized that I
needed to back the cap iron up the blade a good 1/8-3/16" or so. The cap
iron is not really needed as a chipbreaker with the mouth set very fine.
It just gets in the way. Once I backed the cap iron off, the choking
disappeared.
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