In article ,
Chris Bacon wrote:
Well, just look at the average plane blade. It's supported as close to
the cutting edge as possible.

Perhaps you'd care to expand on that superficially wrong statement?

Not when you clip the other part of the post.

A decent plane consists of a very rigid body, and a well supported rigid
and sharp blade.

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