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Taking a break here, I picked up a small block plane from Home Depot. I wanted to see if it would make a good solution for trimming up the edges of the vertical panels, as they were cut just a hair wide, to allow for sanding them flush. Some areas are a bit wider than a hair, but all of my mess here, and the tests that created it proved for me that planing, or at least the work of this particular cheap block plane are terrible choices. I was leaving the nastiest edge. I think birch is too hard, and the planer was too rickety, and the blade was too dull. I tried honing it up, but it didn't help. I cleaned this up, and abandoned the idea.
IMG_5444
Taking a break here, I picked up a small block plane from Home Depot. I wanted to see if it would make a good solution for trimming up the edges of the vertical panels, as they were cut just a hair wide, to allow for sanding them flush. Some areas are a bit wider than a hair, but all of my mess here, and the tests that created it proved for me that planing, or at least the work of this particular cheap block plane are terrible choices. I was leaving the nastiest edge. I think birch is too hard, and the planer was too rickety, and the blade was too dull. I tried honing it up, but it didn't help. I cleaned this up, and abandoned the idea.