I have a possible commission where the person wants a dining table with a slight hand scraped texture. What is the best/most effective method for this? A scrub plane has the radius, but is much more aggressive than what I think I would want. Maybe buying a blade for my smoother plane and radiusing it? My concern is also tearout, and ways to avoid this.
My first instinct is to go hand work, it shouldn't be too big of a table that I couldn't do it by hand, even if it is laborious.
It needs to be a subtle scrape, but even if the initial scalloping is too aggressive, I can always sand it down some to slightly smooth the texture.
Thoughts/Suggestions/Methods?
Thanks in advance.