This is the planer that saved me from ever hand-planing an edge flat againScrap bin contents, about to become something nicer than scrapClamped, curing, and — this time — actually flat on the edgesOne more in the clamps while the last batch's mistakes were still fresh in mindFirst sanding pass, dust cleared before anything gets wet — bloodwood taught me that lessonWalnut and maple, oiled up and none the worse for the two failed attempts before itTwo survivors of the batch, side by sideCherry with a walnut stripe dead centerSame pairing, stripe pushed off to one side this timeBloodwood earns its name — cut carefully and the maple stays maple-coloredMaple and walnut, offset stripeA third cherry-and-walnut board, because apparently I liked that combinationThe survivors of the batch, lined up and ready to go find new homesThe pinstripe one — more strips, more glue lines, more chances to mess up the flatness