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Thanks for the feedback everybody.
Don’t think I’ve heard the Denatured Alcohol trick – maybe i’ll give that a shot. This butcher block happens to be edge grain, but I’d like to use some scraps to make an end grain cutting board :). I did a little end grain planing to square my ends and it was also challenging for me, especially on the tiny 1.5″ square stock. I need to build a shootingboard.
I think my plane irons are square because I cheated and bought a worksharp3000 sharpening system – I was working with waterstones for a while but I was too slow at it and I wanted to spend more time working and less time sharpening :-). I may be going through the grits too fast and not getting things as sharp as I should (leaving marks from previous coarser grits?).
I have some new ‘buffing’ level abrasives on order and I will probably try to resharpen a few things this week being more careful
I had a little better luck face-planing to thickness yesterday. It helps me a lot when there is a gage line to work towards – versus when I’m just trying to freehand a flat, straight edge.
Every thread needs some pics 🙂