I just wanted to publicly admit my ignorance here. After watching numerous videos of guys rubbing a wax stick on the bottom of their planes, I finally tried.
I was walking past my linen closet and saw some plane jane white candle sticks and thought "we have had these for 11 years and never used them". So I grabbed one and took it downstairs to my bench. Got out a scrap of black walnut, tried out my No7 without then ran a squiggle of wax down the plane and tried it again.............
HOLY COW!! I feel like such a jack@ss for not having tried it before. It was like glass. Cut better with more control.
So, thank you everyone and sorry I didn't listen sooner. Won't make that mistake again.