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how do you avoid tearing out when you put on a bevel across the grain?
seems like an opportunity for much wailing and lamenting of the women*
to put a cross grain bevel on a piece using a roughing jack plane.

* obligatory Arnold quote required of all California residents.

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No tearout at 45degrees to the grain.  None at 90degrees either.  Not
really.  You're not going against the grain, you are going across it.
Otherwise you could never make a raised panel.  In this way I 'crush my wood
fibers and see them driven before me * '

That said.  Be careful with the scrub plane as it can take a bigger bite
than you expect.  Yank a divot right out of there.  Especially around
contrary grain.  This is why I don't get TOO far to the gage line.

I also bevel the edge as a cheap for a topside indicator of how close I get.
That way I don't have to squint.  I don't bevel RIGHT to the gage line.
That way I can get the jack, plane of the rest and still get that whisker
when I switch to a finer plane.  Like the Pit-Bull Stunning Jointer.