[GISer3546]

I have a rather new wood river #5 hand plane thats giving me some tear out issues. Yes the grain is fairly irregular but I have been lead to believe I can do a few things to remedy this. I have moved my chip breaker forward to about 1/32 of an inch from the blade edge. I was also going to try to adjust the frog forward a bit but cant seem to find any info about doing this. Is this a regular solution for tear out or is it ridiculous to do this to something as big as a #5? I have never adjusted the frog and want to be sure i do it right any directions on the best way to go about this... or is it time to invest in a #3?

 

[GISer3546]

I am working on this while Im revitalizing a scraper plane, figured i would came at this issue from two angles. And my #5 is sharp enough to take hair off my arm so i dont think thats the issue.