Hey, neanderthals!
I recently started working with some pine boards to make shelves and blade seems to become dull too fast. I want to understand if it's my expectations are too high or blade might be faulty.
I basically used 3 planes: scrub plane with unknown steel (about 30*), 25* and 38* pm-v11. Task performed was removing old finish and flattening with scrub, then flattening with jack (25*) and removing tear-out with smoothing (38*). I tried avoiding putting anything except scrub plane to old finish (which should be yacht varnish) but that was not always possibly.
Later I switched to new pine boards and flattened and prepared for gluing them mostly with jack.
On the next day I noticed that jack plane is not working satisfactory and checked its blade, then other blades. I would say scrub plane blade looks good, 38* smoothing blade looks good as well (in fact I think I only sharpened it once). And 25* blade that concerned meek look really bad: dents, folded steel etc. I tried stropping it (piece of beech with green compound) but it still looked bad after that.
Here is the photo of blade (inserted below), and here is the photo of 1 mm scale for, well, scale.
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What do you think? Is it normal wear for half day work or probably the finish damaged the blade? Or pine knots?
I want to notice in advance that I know about Veritas excellent service but I want first to understand if it's my fault or not.