Bill Tindall
....not that anyone should care except as a compliment and encouragement for Hennebury,Weaver and Kees.

Kato and Kawai taught me how a cap iron works and provided a quantitative measure of the range over where it worked. Hennebury stimulated thinking about the details of the forces involved in planing and tear-out mitigation. He also instantly established credibility with his portfolio of stuff he has designed and made. Weaver taught me that the Kato and Kawai work was applicable to the kind of hand planes I own. Because I have never seen anything he has made I remained skeptical about applicability to stuff I do. Kees convinced me with the unassuming video that the cap iron effect could be easily applied to practical planing tasks used in building stuff, not just diddling with a hand plane.

Not to sound disrespectful, but if Kees could do it I could do it, and what he was doing is typical of a task involved in making stuff- an ordinary woodworker, and an ordinary plane, a simple adjustment, a typical wood and a typical grain reversal. Seeing is believing, especially on a Forum.

These people were successful at teaching what they know. If I am able to apply what I learned on my next project you all, and this Forum, have had a positive impact on my woodworking. And that is why I am here, to learn.