The current of three projects presently under construction is being made with some very unlikely looking 'pippy' English Oak, which for the most part goes through the p/t (taking very fine cuts) without too much botheration. One or two bits (show door frames) have über-wonky grain which goes up, down and sideways with the pips and I couldn't even plane it with a LV LA jack, very tight mouth and 42deg honed blade, so effective pitch was 54deg. It was still tearing out with large gashes in the surface
So I switched over to over to a blade (I have several ) that was honed to 47deg so the effective pitch was now 59deg.
A miracle happened...all the tear out disappeared even taking a moderate cut. Muchly impressed - Rob