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OK, noob pride here.
It is still a little harder to push than it seems it should be from the videos and it is skipping a little where I need to push a little harder.
However I was able to get a fairly continuous – along part of a long board – thousandth or less of an inch shaving.
Woohoo!
The issue was about 10% minor frog adjustment and 90% blade wasn’t being sharpened properly. I don’t have a honing jig, although one is on the way from Lee Valley, but I think I got close to 30 deg either way. I got the plane blade slightly more square although still not perfect. The biggest issue was I had no idea what was meant by getting a burr or taking it off or whatnot so I wasn’t sharping for long enough. My blade was old, but Paul’s videos there’s real quick sharpening because it’s an existing blade. Anyway I figured out both from other YouTube vids and Amazon books and resharpened tonight.
Enjoy two pics, one with digital caliper reading 0.0005 and another showing the stretched out shaving.
Caliper reading 0.0005:
Shaving: