On 1/30/2019 9:01 AM, dpb wrote:
....

The plain planing (so to speak ) exercise will at least eliminate
that the head isn't aligned with the table when the forces are uniform
across the stock; after that is confirmed then he can move on to better
arrangments to hold the workpiece and checking for other issues.
....

Typo -- "...the head isn't MISaligned..."

--dpb