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Don,

As Bob mentioned, your plane is from the age of painted frogs out of the Stanley factory.

IMO, sanding might be an improvement.

My suggestion would be to first try this plane as it is....

For some reason your images do not appear.

Sanding down to metal sounds like a good idea.

I tried attaching an image just to see if there was a difference and now it is here to stay.

jtk

Don, do you know the type (date of manufacture) of this plane?

My next question would be is the blade bedding mostly a single flat surface or does the blade only seat around the edges? It may be...