Reply To: Woden W78 Rebate/Fillister Fence Out of Square

Good job.

You might find you won’t have to go through the trouble to thin the fence. It’s not often you need a rebate at full width.

There in a bit of a learning curve. Main points are : sharpen the plane dead flat – don’t ease or crown any edges.

The plane should protrude maybe the thickness of a business card with the grain.

Cross grain work that needs the nicker should have the iron aligned with it. Take a couple back strokes first so the nicker scores the cut line. And sharpen iron and nicker.
And I avoid spelching cross grain by removing wood down to depth at the end of the cut with a chisel

Paul has more: https://paulsellers.com/2016/05/rebate-plane-no1-78-filletster-plane/