Use them!!
You clearly haven't really caught the bug ;-} This is a world of perfect forms, or at least of striving towards them.
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I still don't have a good reference for flat. Baulk at $150 or so for a Williams straight edge. Offer still open to share in a buy of Mcjing 150mm parallel plates. 1 thou in 1 foot acc to an informed poster elsewhere who'd I'd happily thank if I could remember who it was.
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My thing is wood turning; I actually make things on the lathe. Here, I just take a perverse pleasure in rehabbing flatware tools. Scraping plane soles is next but one on the agenda, with kind thanks to Michael for all his sage advice.