Im making a tray for our bathtub, for champagne and strawberry...have to keep the wife happy..
I began with 2x4 stock and began to prepare the edges for gluing. I had lots of tearout in the beginning. I used my 4½ and LN 62. To my surprice the 4½ were better, but still tear out. It didn´t matter too much because I was going to glue the faces together, but now I dread for planing the faces..
I think its due to changing grain directions on the mahogany
Any advices?