Bolting your thick iron to a mass of weighty steel with no frog linkage and no cap iron solidifies the coupling. End-grain planing is always approached with a predictability that face-grain planing does not have at all. On most low-angle bevel-up planes it is mainly the added weight that helps bolster end-grain planing. Personally, bevel-up planes work well on non-contradictory wood which is primarily end-grain planing only and that’s why they are popular.

In other words, it depends on how often you need to change the dynamic because of the regularity you face in planing an area of wood that needs it. Whether it is worth buying such a plane is a matter of pure choice. An advantage of bevel-up planes is that it is easy to change the bevel by steepening the fore-edge with a micro-bevel topside you might do this to plane potentially awkward grains such as figured or wavy-grained woods but, all too often, your bevel-up plane has already torn the grain irreconcilably by then so not always of benefit. I doubt anyone would really notice much difference with steeper bevels on the chisel when used this way. Used with the bevel up is the paring cut used at the very lowest angle of presentation possible and an angle no plane can really work at. Chisels interplay throughout the day to be used bevel up and bevel down. Bevel up, as in bevel-up planes, can make a marked difference depending on the steepness of the bevel at the cutting edge. Bevel down and with the blade elevated as in a bevel-down plane will make no difference. The steeper the bevel is on a plane or chisel the more resilient the cutting edge will be but depending on how you use the blade will affect how it feels in the wood.

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