The Flipping Idiot vs the Spiral Wen Planer - Day 1! 

Thanks for the comment! It is good advice for anyone interested in getting the best results from a basic planer. I plan to experiment with managing tear out when I have more daylight. I had hoped I could feed highly figured wood through this thing blindfolded and it would come out like glass, but that was not the case. I have a lumber business near me that puts out a lot of inexpensive ash lumber, so I use it a lot and I’ve had similar results on my little jointer with 6 inch blades no matter how light a pass I tried to take so I knew it would be a tough challenge, but I may make a video where I take similarly figured ash and feed it through with some arrows on the side to compare tear out in different directions, making the lightest cuts possible.