Wait, 118 degrees? That is way hotter than I ever would've guessed a grinder head gets.

Papyrus for a 1920s bungalow is just wrong, plain and simple. That font belongs on a menu at a tiki bar, not on a listing for a brick house near downtown. The fact that she picked it off a dropdown because it felt beachy tells you she didn't even look at your place, she just grabbed whatever looked fun. You're not being a jerk by wanting the biggest thing you own to look like it's being sold by a grown up. Just tell her flat out that the font needs to change, keep the porch photo whole, and you'd rather see something clean and plain like Arial or Helvetica. You don't owe her a soft landing on this one, it's your house and your money on the line.

That bit about a "3 dollar scrap of plywood clamped as a fence" is the whole trick, and yeah, it's a known one. I read a thread on a woodworking forum where a guy said he runs a power planer along a straight edge for every door he hangs now, and he hasn't touched a hand plane in years. Two hours isn't wasted though, it taught you what dead straight feels like, which matters when you're checking the jig setup anyway.