I have a few pieces of Mahogany; It was sold to me as such, for a larger project and not this remaining part is my 12% overage. I know there's a lot of things they call mahogany, but I'm not sure what exactly it is. I can say that hand planing the width is a pain.
I'm getting incredible tear-out along what I'll call the softer "ribbons" as I'm planing the length of the board.
Sharpened and honed (green oxide) a No. 6 bevel down; re-did my No. 3 same problem. Yes the cap iron is less than 1 mm from the blade.
Went at it with a newly sharpened and honed L.V. bevel up smoother, with wispy shavings from the "harder" ribbon, and tear-out on the softer area beside it.
I admit, I normally attack Oak and Maple, so this one is strange to me, but I'm actually wondering if hand planing is the wrong way to do this; perhaps " just run it through the planer, and sand it.
Oh, yes, my card scraper technique is terrible, but I did try a freshly set up and burnished scraper but I'm not happy with the result either.