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3.) Throat clearance is a funny thing, I like to leave mine fairly open (2 or 3 mm) unless I am having problems then I may experiment with very small openings and super shallow depth of cut. You are always at the mercy of the wood. My wood planes have open non adjustable throats and work as well or better then my iron planes.
4.) You wont like this answer. You grind it square and it must be square to be useful. So depending on what sharpening equipment you have build a jig or do it by hand but get it square to the sole.
5.) You’re plane is not properly tuned. This is frustrating because you think it is. But watch Paul and see if your planes perform as well as his. Probably not, mine don’t. I have about 20 planes and some of them excel at one thing that others do not. That is because there is a difference from one plane to the next that I cannot detect. Fettle and practice, fettle and practice, that’s why they call it a hobby.
On one of his videos Paul pulls a plane along the edge of a piece of wood by using some kind of fat wire wrapped around the front tote. As he pulls the plane a perfect coiled shaving of wood comes out of the top. As far as I know that is impossible. I mean if I hadn’t seen Paul do it on video.