David writes:

None of my LV plane's soles are perfectly FLAT. The aren't supposed
to be. In order not to rock, they are deliberately machined ever so
slightly "hollow", by design.

BTW - This style is described in my book that describes how to tune a
Japanese wooden-soled planes.

They sell a special plane (like a scraper plane) just for this
purpose.

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