chip breaker blues

Chips are jamming up between the chipbreaker and iron?

A chipbreaker can be tensioned by clamping it in a vise and hitting with a hammer to bend it a little for more pressure when on the plane. Don’t just go whacking it with a hammer based on what I say. Somebody here may be able to explain in more detail but I think I read of the method in Garret Hack’s book on planes.

That said, there’s some nuance to grinding the underside of a chipbreaker. I hone and polish the top side too, and wax it.

https://www.lumberjocks.com/OSU55/blog/39501

HTH

thanks for the article I’ll check it out

Richard does a better job than anyone I know explaining and showing you, much better than I can explain writing:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fVfJxDFNinc

Have seen some chipbreakers that are bowed where they meet the iron….either the middle bows up, or the ends do…simple matter of the ball end of a hammer to take the bow out…

Edge should be like a knife edge where it meets the flat back of the iron….even a little flex as the cb is locked down is ok…

What sometimes happens…is the edge looks more like a rod/roll….with a slight space right under the edge…and chips/shavings will hit that spot and stop…..and then more shavings will just push the front one under…but, when held up to look for a gap, none will show. until you look in from the front of the two parts…and see a slight “gap”...

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thanks, I’ll try again and again iyt seems not to end, the video was helpful

Is the iron dead flat?

I guess I did flatten the back. I’ll check

I saw a video once that said to put the breaker very very close to the tip of the blade. After that it shoved crap between the blade and the breaker. I watched a Rob Cosman video in which he said he did not do that so I backed the breaker off the blade and out came thin curly shavings and the thing was much smoother, thank you Rob Cosman. I also had to learn the previous owner had the blade upside down, the blade and the breaker face each other.

thanks for the suggestion I’ll try the cossman trick