A follow up spokeshave question for Bob Smalser *LINK*
Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA
>Bob, in your recent very helpful post on spokeshave tune up (link below), you say, "One important point often overlooked....after the shave is assembled and adjusted, tighten the cap iron slotted screw a bit to press the blade firmly against the casting before you tighten the knurled screw to apply a lot of cap iron pressure directly above the blade cutting edge. All the cap iron does is support the cutting edge....that slotted screw holds the cap iron-blade assembly against the casting."
This was news to me - I've always treated that central slotted screw as the pivot point for the cap iron. I will try your suggested approach, but I'm curious: does it also apply to the simpler iron shaves, like the 51, which is what I use? It would seem harder on those, since you set the iron by fussing around before tightening down the cap.
Bob's previous post on spokeshaves