Reply To: Plane Sole Flattening on a Woodriver#7

Good advice all around. Two things:

No way I’d beat on a cast plane with a hammer…unless I was recycling it.

If the plane is bad, I’d start the grit series on a big plane with a lot coarser grit than 220.
80 grit is not too coarse. Once the plane is flat, I find getting the grit scratches out is the easy part.