John,
Be careful with end grain hollowing with your bedan. With a regular scraper, I recommend learners have no more than 1/4 of the edge in contact with the wood (the other 3/4 are out in space toward the center of the box.) The bedan is wider than a parting tool and narrower than a scraper, so maybe go for less than 1/3 of the end. It can get WAY too exciting if you engage too much of the end of the tool.
I would also assume you would use the tool with the edge a little lower than the tool rest, as with a scraper. Bevel up would be different and interesting, and honestly I wouldn't know what to expect until I tried it. (maybe I will do that just to see--I made a couple bedans earlier in the year but hadn't thought to use them that way)