Wooden Smoothing Plane - My second BIG mistake

I got the plane glued up. As you can see to the right, the basic shape was taking form. My first big mistake is still visible here but I plan to fix that later. Now is the time to square up the bottom to the sides. Not a big deal, just run it over the jointer and done... move on.


It was a super cold day when I was working on this. I remember I ha to wear gloves when I touched the jointer fence - it felt like my hand was burning - in a heated shed! I made sure my jointer was dead on 90 degrees and went for it. It did not work. I don't know what I am doing wrong but this is the result

It is hard to tell, but if it is squared up there should be no light coming through the square and wood. WTF! Not only was it not square, the more I tried the more out of square it became. By this point I had shaved off over 1/2" and was getting a crowning effect.

After trying to use my sanding table and adjusting my jointer table again and again. I finally broke down and did it by hand. Again it saved the day. With my block plane I was able to get it to square. A quick pass with my jointer and sanding table to smooth out the blade marks and i was off and running again.

Phew...