wilbur wrote:
: I've been doing a lot of learning about hand planes recently, and was
: interested to see the differences between metal bodied and wooden
: planes.

: Then I read about infill planes. They look really nice, but can anyone
: tell me if there is a functional advantage of having the wooden infil
: vs. a regular metal bodied plane?

They have (or should have) very tight mouths, and the blade is
supported all the way down to the mouth. The former you can
get with a metal plane by moving the
frog forward, but this results in less support for the blade.


-- Andy Barss