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Hi Salko,
Yes, I’ll definitely keep it in mind and I do see where it could be useful. Note, however, that this test piece is actually highly-figured curly / tiger maple. You can see the stripes in the photo from the crazy, curly grain. It tears out like crazy! The shoulder plane has an extremely fine mouth and my #3, for whatever reason, is my best plane for goofy grain. I also cheated by giving five or ten swipes worth of back bevel to the #3. That’s not really for the cross-grain planing of the post so much as it is for the surface planing of the curly maple. Also, I took very fine shavings and worked slowly, in part because of the figured wood although at one point, I was taking heavier shavings with the shoulder plane (heavy for a shoulder plane, that is.)
Well, this is a sample of one. As I work through more, probably I’ll need to use your techniques, too. Thanks for sharing them!