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tiredofspam nospam.nospam.com wrote:

I'm actually doing a night table for my wife and it has similar grain
and pith.. My problem has been planing by hand. It's been tough the
grain has not been very friendly to work on. I want the chatoyance, so I
don't want to sand it.

Scraping is the way to take on grain that does not want to plane.

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