Has anyone out there had success using handplanes with lacewood?
I picked up some nice lacewood a while ago, got around to playing with it this evening and found it to be quite difficult to plane. I tried my LV BUS with low, med, and high angle blades, all of them left tearout, as did a 60 degree woodie (Mujinfang) and a standard Bailey 4. The blades were all freshly sharpened to 8000 grit waterstone. It seemed like the higher angles actually did a bit worse than the low. The grain is running pretty flat, so there was no "with" or "against" the grain, but I tried going in both directions anyway, with no difference noted. I finally had to resort to sanding, but would much rather use a plane.
Dan