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Tactics for Taming Tearout

Sometimes you run across a board that has a grain pattern that just won’t behave. Regardless of how you feed it into your planer, it comes out with those annoying little divots in the surface. The first impulse is to ditch the board for one less unruly. The problem is that the beauty of the board

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