Carl W Muhlhausen wrote:

> So being the weak-willed and morally corrupt heathen that I am, I will
> probably designate this wood as a wood that just doesn't want to be
> planed and sand it, burning a few electrons in the process. Since these
> are non-show parts, I'll definitely quit when there still is some
> tearout, else I end up with 1/4" drawer sides and a 1/8" bottom.
>
> I've use lots of hard maple in the past without this problem, so I hope
> this is an isolated incident. I definitely get off on the shiny,
> glistening surface a handplane can leave on maple.
>
> Carl

Follow-up to my own posting....
I must have been feeling guilty or something, but last night I rehooked
the blade on my Stanley #112 (plane-like scraper, jeff) and went at the
maple. It did a pretty fair job. I  put a fairly aggressive hook on the
blade, and the tearout went mostly away with some vigorous scraping. I
quit before I got rid of all of it and I left some hefty marks from
aggressive scraping since this was a drawer bottom. I'm pretty confident
that a lighter touch and perhaps a hand scraper could have gotten me to
an acceptable surface, though not as pristine as a planed one.
I did haul out the ROS to smooth out the show (inside) of the drawer
bottoms, because otherwise the surface was a little too primitive even
for me.

Carl