Bob Hackett
Now we are getting a better and more focused view of the bigger picture.
The wear patterns that these very specialized modifications to what we might consider "normal" for a western hand plane bring also require a departure from what most of us want to use as our approach to sharpening.
We can now see that we`ll need something like a specialized machine or device/jig that will allow us to hollow grind both the bevel AND the back in order to accommodate the honing technique which most efficiently removes the wear patterns created.
What may look like a small change in one thing sets a whole series of other things in motion and in the end changes everything in regard to how we choose to do something as "simple" as sharpening the iron of our plane.
It looks to me like this is moving into the realm of Eastern vs Western philosophy on blade geometry and set up when planing. As we know, the Eastern approach to planing is vastly different than what Stanley and company were about and yet here we are trying to stuff an Eastern designed blade (and chip bender) into one of his iron bench planes after sharpening that assembly using Western techniques and an old oil stone.