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I was fighting tearout on some curly maple and a guy at the lumberyard said to try a 40-degree micro-bevel on my plane iron, which felt wrong but worked perfectly.
I always thought a lower angle was the only way for tricky grain, but after three ruined boards, I set my low-angle jack plane to 40 degrees and got glassy shavings, so what's your go-to trick when the wood just won't behave?
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patricia_kelly10d ago
Maybe we're overthinking this whole tearout thing.
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