I just got a ’round-tuit’ and started processing a few pieces of Persimmon my step-son gave me a couple years ago. Not sure what it’s gonna be, but it ain’t gonna be nothing while it’s just split firewood
Planing this stuff is like planing rock… I’ve never had anything kill the edge on the plane iron this fast. I’m sure it doesn’t help that the outer layer had dirt embedded in it that wouldn’t scrape off.
Took hours to go from something like this…
To something like this…
And I’m not done yet, this is just as far as I got before I needed to quit for the day, as you can see looking at the other side.
It took a LOT of planing before it was flat enough to safely put it on the table saw to get a square edge. This is where a roughing plane would have been a wonderful thing to have. Would have been much better off re-sawing on the band saw if it fit. Would have been a lot easier with rip blade that wasn’t fifty years old too.