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First make sure the sharpened edge of your blade is square to the side of the blade. Use your tri-square to determine this. When I sharpen I tend to take more off the right side of the edge and need to adjust my “focus” on the left edge when sharpening. Sometimes things get so out of whack that there is not enough lateral adjustment to overcome this unintentional skewing. I then need to go the the grinder and start over.
Once square and sharp, carefully set the blade in the plane as square as possible. Make sure the hole in the blade engages the lateral adjuster. Then move the blade in or out so any chip is very thin.
Use a 3/4″ wide pine board to test each side of the blade by running the plane along the edge. Use very small adjustments and move the lateral adjuster in the direction of the fatter chip.