I've always been a straight, square, and flat kind of woodworker, but recently I've acquired a Boggs spokeshave (with curved bottom) from Lie-Nielsen in hopes of producing silky smooth eased and curved edges. Out of the box the shave seems to do this quite beautifully, even in my hands.
Now, I want to see if I can use it to smooth a couple of concave radii I've cut on my other new curve-producing gem: my very first band saw!!! The band saw makes it stunningly easy to cut the 8-1/4" radius on the bottom of the short (10" long) rails for the side of a cherry cabinet my wife wants. (Makes me wonder why I waited almost 20 years to get a band saw! I'm kind of over the moon.)
But back to the spokeshave: The rails are 7/8" thick and I want to shave the entire thickness of the "Face edge" before I turn to the corner edges. It doesn't seem to be maintaining a smooth shaving through the entire concave curve (about 10" long and 8-1/4" radius as I've said). All I have so far is a chattery hit-or-miss that produced a few tantalizingly smooth sections, maybe 1/2 inch to 1 inch along the length. I'm looking to the community for tips on how to tune the spokeshave so I can "swipe off" a full-length, fine shaving throughout the curve. Any ideas?