Last week I decided to upgrade my Small Plow Plane to the Veritas Combination Plane. After a short deliberation the SPP went on Kijiji and in a few days was gone. Yesterday, I picked up the Beast. My first impressions are very positive, the CP has its own character, it's larger and feels more solid than the SPP. Don't get me wrong, I loved the SPP, but there is something to the CP which makes me hold it and look at it even more.... I didn't get a chance to use it yet, as we had some people over last night....
Being an engineer, I appreciate the workmanship and the accuracy of micro adjustments for depth stops and a sub fence. The SPP feels just great in my hands, the balance seems to be excellent. Anyway, today, I am going to try it and perhaps put together some short review.
Just a couple of questions:
The instruction does not mention shaving deflectors... for tongue cutters, should shaving defectors be used? They come supplied with cutters (for SPP ONLY?).... There is no issue with jamming? Would one would even be able to install it in a threaded mechanism for the depth stop?
My second question: for the rabbeting across the grain (dovetail's tail board), I should deploy one of the scoring spurs, just like i would in case of dados, correct?