Sonny wrote in
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As Lee says, having a good comfortable stance is important.

I re-work salvaged lumber, often, and use a hand plane often, rather
than risk running an old board, with a hidden nail, throught the
powered planer.

I've found: Don't think of your planing as ending at the end of the
board. Imagine the board extends a foot beyond what you actually see.
Plane to the end of the imaginary board. Also, focusing pressure at
the end of the board or on the front of the plane, as you assume
you're doing, is likely part of the problem. As you plane to the end
of the imaginary board extension, focus on keeping even pressure on
the whole plane, not just the front. After a while, that imaginary
board extension will "reduce itself" to a few inches, when you get the
feel of the board being planed flat to the end, and not curved
downward at the end.

There have been times, when I have short boards to plane, I butt 2 or
3 end-to-end, rather than imagining more of 1 board is there. I like
"the feel" of having that extra length, imagined or real, to work
with.

When my blades get dull, I have a tendency to not only make shorter
strokes, but press harder at the end of a stroke. For me, that
pressing harder at the end of a stroke often equates to pressing
harder at the front of the plane, as well, and I'll get results as you
describe.

Sonny


Thanks to both of you guys. I'll give it a try and report back.

Puckdropper
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Make it to fit, don't make it fit.