flatsawn maple - how?
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>"...A Scraper Plane with a single iron set almost vertically. The face of
>the iron is covered with vertical scorings which produce a serrated
>cutting edge. Such an edge will scratch away wood quite fast without
>lifting the grain. It is therefore valuable for working awkwardly grained
>surfaces before final finishing with a flat scraper. It can also be used
>to roughen surfaces before glueing..."

All well and good, but this is not what the historic treatises (
before 1800) or the luthier tradition tell. I know people, too, who
use the scratch plane, and I used to do it before I learned how to do
it right.

William Jurgenson
http://www.zabernet.de/bill/index.html