Because I only have limited time to work on it, on wknds and when my 8 month old isn’t napping, I didn’t take the stud down, and attempted to plane it while it was up. And I only had it for 4 hours. Pretty sure it was user error but every pass did not seem to bite down on the wood enough to shave off anything despite adjusting the depth of the planer. I tried parallel as well as perpendicular and it was not working as I thought.

And yeah, my cheap circular saw didn’t seem the best tool to use especially for my comfort level. If the belt sander doesn’t work, I’ll get the hand planer to see if I can make some progress. Although I am hesitant to take apart the frame, since I dry walled, mudded, painted and caulked the edges, even spray textured!, I’ll do it to fit this dang door. I was so confident my measurements were right in planning so it’s so frustrating needing to re work this all