TomD
"Oh gracious me, somewhere in some post recently I predicted all of this - the total overcomplication of it all.

Now it's a selection of four (is it?) mutually exclusive 'paradigms.'"

1) three of them seem to be on a continuum, with the stiffening on being tosh, which I always thought it was, or at least less useful as a paradigm. People aren't really discussing this, so it hasn't fouled the waters yet. It is just my contention that there may be a continuum. I put that out there so that people won't dimis the other methods.

2) All this stuff was always around, so there isn't anything new about it. Do you remember that uncomplicated time of your childhood? It was all there then. Life goes on.

3) It's only complicated if you find it so. Some people might not have the capacity to sort all this out in their feeble brains. But in your case I think you are not having any trouble with it at all, you just like to rage against the complexity. The complexity is a sideshow. It's woodworking, you just get rid of any wood you don't need, it's a pretty simple black and white process.

"Oy, vey.

Can a chipbreaker setting jig be too far behind? I think not."

Well I have already laid claim to various forms of mechanically adjustable chip breaker, but a jig is a good idea, you may end up rich.