"BillyBob" writes:

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preserve, I think the safest surest way would be to use a hand plane. It
will definitely give the cleanest edge. It won't take long at all to plane
off a 1/4" on pine.

.... but since this planing would be on end grain it takes longer *and*
he risks breaking of large splinters at the end of the plate...
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