Mostly you should discover how to sharpen that plane. Nothing wrong with a
block plane used for smoothing. Smaller blade makes for more strokes, but
if the smoother is marginal, I have no problem picking up the block.

As one who used to be one, can't say too little for your teacher. The order
of stock preparation is part of day one's machine familiarization.

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"Corey" wrote in news:tR%9d.3802$gd1.375@trnddc08:
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Who knows what I'll discover next?


You'll discover that there a bunch of right ways to do things, and even
more wrong ways to do things.