No, the planer does not do what it wants to do, I have a piece of grease pencil taped to a piece of scrap thin lumber about 4 feet long, I can stand back and find where I DON’T like the rocker and mark that spot, that become the starting place to begin my alteration. Patience and seeing what your seeing, this is what Tinker used to say to me all the time, go slow, think it out meticulously before going further and use SMALL cuts each time, they can be fixed, but the big oooooooooppps…
"Just about every shaper has 'lost it' on a blank". Mike D.
Guilty ! The birth of belly boards.