Paul Sellers, is the famous British carpenter. As stated in the original posting, this is an easy way to set a plane with no adjustment screw. It also teaches you to better estimate a shaving's thickness. To me, this was the best thing. Since most everything I work with is hard or way hard, sharp blade, thin cut is the only way, unless, you want to start bondoing a piece of wood.
I don't know who Paul is, but from step 11 onwards in his article is pretty much what I do, except I don't use a test board. With experience a few knob turns and I am good to go on the actual work piece. Measuring the iron depth with a gauge IMHO is not practical.
Setting your plane after sharpening
Question: Paul – I really dread having to remove the irons from my hand planes for sharpening as I have so much trouble getting them back in so that they make consistent shaving both in thickness and…paulsellers.com
Setting the blade depth has a lot of variables, type of wood, iron angles for figured wood, how sharp the blade is, etc. It really comes into play making slight adjustments as one goes along planing a piece of wood.
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, Paul Sellers is an older version of Rob Cosman except Paul still makes furniture in the mother land/island. He's been doing more philosophy and gardening than furniture making since the virus, however. Rob is making how-to (make furniture) videos since the virus,
