To all,
After lurking here for a year - I decided to jump in. I bought a old Bailey #5 from Sandy Moss - took a few hours to tune up and it was working. I can say that I'm hooked - found myself planing some scrap just for the joy of watching the little curlies fly around the bench.
I especially love love the lack of noise (my 5 kids can sleep while I work, what a concept)!
But, I'm trying to plane a Cherry end-table top and am getting a small amount of tear out - which seems like a big problem as I'll have to sand quite a bit to remove. Is it my technique, a dull blade, too wide a mouth, or just the wood that causes the tear out and is there something I can do to remove it rather than sand the whole dang thing (which I was hoping to avoid with a good hand plane)...
I'm attempting to plane 'with' the cathedrals (meaning that i'm planing the way they're pointing)...
Any help or references to other threads would be greatly appreciated.