I mostly have experience hand planing using LV bevel up planes. I recently planed a beam of the VG DF and it actually planned beautifully. I have had the same experience as your friend when planing flat-sawn DF boards. The edges also tend to splinter off if you are not careful. I have only used DF for a workbench project, so I had plenty of thickness to play with. We'll see how it goes with thinner boards.Chris Hall wrote:It can be a bitch to work sometimes. I had a co-worker at Eastwind in California who was so pissed off with tear-out planing some Fir one day that he threw his plane across shop. Not something they tend to mention in company promotional literature...Has anyone else had a similar experience with fir?
For this project, I am trying to get my japanese planes setup for use. My smoother is now taking acceptable shavings. Next I have an adjustable throat kanna that I am going to setup in a jack plane configuration with a cambered blade.