"Paul Kierstead" wrote in message
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If you
are going to do this much, a scrub plane is really really really handy.
You might be able to get one cheap used, or get ECE woody, or get a
really crappy #4/5 (used or Home Depot junk) and put a *heavy* camber on
the blade and open up the throat a mile. This will make the heavy chores
surprisingly fast and easy. You really want to do this, honest. Use that
crappy grinder of yours. It's a scrub plane, it doesn't have to be
perfect (hell, mine currently has a pretty good nick out of the blade...)


It's also a plane for rough work, and the standard blade is a skosh thin for
the type of work to be performed. Thicker would be nice, so you could get
rid of a bunch of chatter telegraphing to your elbow.