Quartered and "Rift Sawn" Wood for Planes

[Jacob]

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Now with that in mind, did the planemakers of old use exclusively "rift sawn" stock with the growth rings running perfectly perpendicular, or did they use less perfect stock with the growth rings running at say 60 deg? ....

Having just sawn up for firewood a batch of wormy and worn out old planes I can assure you that they used anything and everything, including some (very few) examples in other woods than beech.
I expect you'd have had to pay more for those made of the best stuff.

PS I've kept the blades and cap irons - PM if anybody wants them - looking for an odd size etc.