Usually you start with a 5 mm width of timber and you need ot go down to 2 mm.
thats 3 mm to go down on a hard wood with rough grains.
Till now I have been dong such work with a stanely #5 1/2 or #6 (Fore Plane)
thesse planes did the work but requied meny adujustments of the blade along the way, and a sharpening onsce a while (during the work on one side)
here's how it looks like
it need to be waxed every few strokes to make it go smooth.
recently I upgraded to to veritas low back bevel smoother plane , and its like riding mercedes
very smooth , and quite, and you dont need that much of waxing
Here's the waste of just one size
Thats all for now
Yair
