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Hello, here's a method for thinning stock that might be scaled down and adapted to your needs. The pictures show a 10" x 20" piece of rosewood that I'm planing down to about a 2mm thickness for the back of an acoustic guitar. I have made a base board from particle board and placed it on the flat top of the table saw. Then I cut an L-shape from 1/8" or 7/64" baltic birch plywood, and a rectangular piece (attached to the runners). The stock is laid on the base board, and prevented from moving by the short leg of the L-shape (acting as a stop) and the rectangular piece that is butted against it. Then I use the Stanley No. 4 to scrub off most of the stock, and then I use a No.6 foreplane for uniform thicknessing, and then finish up with a cabinet scraper. The No.6 foreplane is 18" long and so it can bridge the stock and it will plane off material until its sole rests on the 7/64" plywood. By the way, waxing or oiling the sole of the plane greatly eases the effort of handplaning (and sawing as well) and does not interfere with finishing. With practice, you will find that planing is much faster and more pleasant than sanding. For most general woodwork, I would say that 80% of the work can be done with a No.4 bench plane and a No. 60-1/2 low angle block plane (not shown here), and these planes should be in any woodworker's armamentarium.
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