"Dukester" wrote in
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All, I "Scary Sharpened" my #4 plane iron and practiced on pieces of
scrap. After this, I thought I was a 1/2 step above totally
inexperienced to smooth my glued up panel of red oak, or at least
trying to even out the glue lines (yes I'd removed the dried glue
squeezeout beforehand). Aiggggh! My first attempt however I must have
had the blade set too deep as it skipped along the surface and left 3
or 4 gouges or ruts about 1/8" wide, 1/2" long, maybe 1/16-1/32" deep
- definitely noticeable.


You know that old saw the finishing gurus use? "Practice on scrap"?

As you've learned, there's more to tuning and adjusting a handplane than
getting the blade sharp. And this fellow, Jeff Gorman, has more than
sufficient to help you, he http://www.amgron.clara.net/index.htm

There's a reason that an apprenticeship was longer than 6 weeks...

Patriarch