"These are just two oil stones, one's coarse, one's fine. I ain't got a clue what grit they are but they work"  I love it.
Your teaching is simple, to the point and no nonsense

Jesus man, just did this to my smoothing N.4 and it works like it has never worked before, I had a 2x2 short piece of a wood named "caobilla" which had like the worst grain you can ever imagine, the direction of the grain was everywhere, and it left it as smooth as glass. I spent like 3 hours doing it because the cap iron looked like sh-, but totally worth the effort 🙌🏻

I’ve been using my Stanley No. 5 for over a year and a half and have never really understood how to prepare my chipbreaker. I totally ground it down using the butt as a reference and it fills with debris sooo easily, so I just pulled it back from the front of my blade edge a couple of millimeters and it doesn’t get jammed up anymore. I think what you’re showing here will get me those nice, beautiful curly streamers for plane shavings.
Thank you!

its great to listen to someone not rabbiting on about grit sizes

The tip about the flex in cap irons is priceless. I have spent a lot of time fettling the edge and checking that it is indeed straight only to have shavings find their way beneath the cap iron anyway. Not all of my planes have this issue but those that do have been a major source of irritation. God only knows how long it would have taken me to spot the problem by chance. Thanks for your videos, well made and packed with valuable information. God bless.

I love your mime / gesture for "kak handed"!

Thank you. I have watched a number of videos on this and nobody said the angle was not really relevant as long as it was lower and it frustrated me no end. I thought it had to be a specific angle. My planes are working well now.... Happy days

Maybe the only video that explains the 'flex' in the chip breaker to the point where "the penny dropped" for me.
Well done English Woodworker.

This is outstanding.  A light bulb just came on.  What a fantastic find.  Can't wait to try this.  Got yourself a new sub.  Thanks much !

This is a must see video. Best explanation I ever got on this matter. So I picked up my least favorite plane. And did precisely what you recommended. This plane juste became a superb gem.
So far my other planes are probably by chance just tuned up enough to be okay. Can't wait to have a run a them with this process.
Thank you so much!

Thanks sooo much for this rant.  I have always wondered how important setting up the cap as well as the iron.  Keep the video's coming

We had just this problem in a forum.  The cap iron had been honed flat but was still grabbing chips.  This video was posted and solved the problem!

Hi Richard. Iv seen a lot of videos in my time and and not only are you good with knowledge but bloody bril at being a comedian. you are simply fresh water on a labour mans spine a very well done me thinks we have another fred dibnar in the wood work world. wonder if the BBC has seen you. Now subscribing.

Thank you for a great and instructive video. I went straight to the shed and realised that my cap iron was thoughtlessy placed to far away from my cutting iron. I modified it, and your approach turned my motivation from despair to joy when tackling the hickory wood!

I am just getting into woodworking and had no idea what a chip breaker even did. this video did an amazing job of explaining it.

Thanks for these videos! Lots of great tips, and I appreciate your sense of humor! I will be adjusting the camber on my smoother and preparing the cap iron a bit more carefully after washing these two about cap irons.

This is so good how could it only have 795 likes??  I can’t wait to give it a try. Thank you so much for sharing.

I really enjoy your channel. Great content. Keep up the good work! So happy that I came across your channel! Greetings from Vienna!

I have followed your advice concerning the chip-breaker set-up..   I find that your advise is spot-on, I purchased a Woodriver No.7 plane, and was plagued with tear-out no mater how I planned..   After watching this post, I got it licked!..  Everyone worries about the flatness of the blade, well, What I found was that the chip-breaker was humped down the middle and would not mate-up to the blade or lever-cap properly.  After flattening the chip-breaker and removing its sharp-edge and replacing it with a small bull-nose, made all the difference in the world.. I am now 98% tear-out-free... I believe that putting the Bull-nose on the chip-breaker really breaks those fibers so much better than that knife-edge it originally came with..  Like you, I set the chip-breaker at about 1/64th to 1/32nd of an inch back from the blade-edge and get some pretty-sweet-shavings and a great flat-surface...  Thanks for your sharing of your knowledge, many hands make lite work!

A very Interesting and helpful video. Thanks Richard