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265458 Don Schwartz <dks@t...> 2018‑03‑16 Re: fettling a scraper plane
On 2018-03-15 7:17 PM, Thomas Conroy wrote:
> Just a thought, but: could the problem actually be the wood, not the 
> scraper plane? If it is almost but not perfectly flat (if, say, it had 
> been smoothed a bit with a card scraper), then it might take whisper 
> bits on one part of a pass and thick chunks on another. Have you tried 
> it on different pieces of wood? Just wondering, I have no experience 
> with scraper planes.
>
> Tom Conroy

Thanks Tom. I don't think that's the issue, but just in case, I'll level 
the test surface before making any changes to my set-up.

Don

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Recent Bios FAQ