david blumberg wrote:

Considering getting a compass plane to help
smooth things out. Any ideas on that, or any of the above?

Make your own - rework the base on a cheap S/H woodie. Most of mine are
coffin smoothers, either rounded off to cut concave or with extra bits
attached to cut convex. I'm no fan of cast iron adjustable compass
planes. A #113 is expensive and fragile, a #20 is a big heavy clog of a
thing.