Rob (Woodbloke) used to have a piece of timber with that title but I’ve come across another one.
Some Zebrano I’ve been working on for the lids to the boxes I’m making.
The dark grain is very hard with the lighter material in between softer, grain orientation all over the place and easily torn. Even my scraper planes wouldn’t touch it. A light setting the plane just skates on the dark stripes, setting a bit harder the blade digs in and makes it worse. The only “cure” was to sand together with the use of a hand scraper. Beginning to hate the stuff
Rod