I would like to have seen you use it your block plane on it.  

That was the easy part. All long grain, nice clean cuts. That little block plane is almost the only hand plane I use, I'm not really a hand plane guy, I just try and use the right tool for the job.

You don't always get what you go after,but you do get what you wouldn't have got if you didn't go after what you didn't get. Blaze Foley