Veritas Small Shoulder Plane

[Phillip Pattee]

Has anyone used one of these Lee Valley small shoulder planes yet? http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=2&p=63847&cat=51&ap=1 I'm not sure how long its been out.

[Chuck Nickerson]

Brand-spanking new. I checked the LV "What's New" button Monday and it wasn't there then. I've placed my order. Now where is their medium or large plow plane?

[Chris Kennedy]

According to the website, it says it was added in September, which means the last couple of days.

Looks pretty cool. I have the medium and think it is great. I don't have much call at the moment for a narrower one, but that may change.

Cheers,

Chris

[Eddie Darby]

I just ran into it today, and so I posted it, but I see that you have it under control! Sorry bout that one!

Nice looking piece of metal! Should make a nice paper weight?:D
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Fixed it by posting on the new saws.

Veritas® Premium Saws

http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=2&p=64007&cat=51&ap=1

Good!

[Doug Shepard]

So if I've already got their bullnose http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=2&p=49709&cat=1,230,41182,48945
is there any reason to put the small shoulder plane on my Christmas wish list? They look like they both fit the same niche/need??

[Don Dorn]

Not sure I understand shoulder planes very well. I had a LV medium and ended up selling because I just never found the occasion to need it. However, the small seems that it would be better in that you can cover the same area if necessary but with a couple of passes. To me, the main thing would be that you can clean up dados of anything 1/2 or bigger where the medium has to be a full 3/4 to do the same thing - and it would still trim a tenon shoulder in a single pass. What am I missing?

[Chris Kennedy]

So if I've already got their bullnose http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=2&p=49709&cat=1,230,41182,48945
is there any reason to put the small shoulder plane on my Christmas wish list? They look like they both fit the same niche/need??

The bullnose is an inch wide, vs. 1/2inch. I would put it on the Christmas wish list.:)