I mentioned the spoke shave in the video. I am not a perfectionist, but I did use the spoke shave to clean up a few which were on the rough side, one or two only. I might of used it a bit more but it was dull and I had not taken the time to sharpen, it of late. The rafter used as a demo was one of the poorer examples but it gets the point across.
Try the adze on narrower stock first, say 3" stock and 2" or so deep on 4-6 inch stock. As practice just keep working the same piece as sacrifice. You need to train body mechanics for knowledge. By standing on blocks my feet and ankles are above the danger point, somewhat. The adze will create the curve, no need to lay out a curved line to follow. The line I had to hit was critical but the sweep leading to it varied a little. I measure with the adze on the top surface about the adze head length away from the stop then give it a little more which I work up to as the final, skewing the adze across the beam at that point. This can be seen in the vid.
Tim
