Bob Hackett
Now that I can clearly see what is taking place on the video it would appear to me that a "shaving bender" when used in the manner this experiment demonstrates can take the place of the leading edge of the sole of a tight mouthed plane as it stresses and compresses this particular species of wood prior to it being cut.
Handy alternative and thing to know when using something like a chisel plane or a plane with an open throat.
It doesn`t mean I`m going to throw out all my tight mouthed smoothing planes, make new "shaving benders" with micrometers attached for adjustment and cut off the leading section of the soles of all of my planes so I can plane without a thought to grain direction anymore than it means I`ll be chucking up all my wood in an old, salvaged, horizontal milling machine to plane it.
Just gives me a better understanding of yet another alternative that probably has more application in the world of power tools such as super-surfacing machines than it does in hand planing.
Thanks to everyone involved for the new insight into yet another highly technical technique that may (or may not) allow us to cut wood cleanly.