The design is a very, very flat, stiff piece of metal, through the bottom of which this blade protrudes. you slide it over a piece of wood.
You can't ignore the rest of the stuff. That tensioner helps prevent that gouging.
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but how? if the blade protrudes past the heel and we press down, how can it not cut the wood below it to some degree?
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does the blade have "give"? i didn't think there was any spring action in a plane
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A little, yeah. That thing that sits above the blade, the thing with the curved tip? That helps keep the blade "down"
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huh. the "chip breaker", i think it's called? that thing has been *bugging* me
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