New Stanley 92 Shoulder Plane

[Dave Bonde]

I would like to get a shoulder plane. We have a Christmas gift exchange with a $100 limit and the new Stanley 92 shoulder plane fits in that price range. Does anyone have experience with that new Stanley 92 that could comment on it. Thanks Dave

[Rob Young]

Just to gum-up the works for you, have you looked at Ron Hock's shoulder plane kit? Under the $100 figure and there have been generally positive reviews.

And you get to make it. OK, not from scratch, but still...

[Dave Bonde]

No I have not, but will check it out. Thanks

[Tom Millington]

I picked up a Stanley 93 earlier this year. It's not as sexy as the LV but it has done everything I've asked of it. While shopping around I heard some horror stories about current production Stanley planes. Maybe I got lucky. The ability to take the front off and use it as a bullnose plane is an added bonus. For the price I'm satisfied.

[Mark Baldwin III]

I will second what Rob said for the Hock kit. I got mine recently. It went together over a weekend. I really like it. One nice thing about a kit like that is that you can customize it. The connection to a tool you build, even if from a kit, and a tool you buy is different.

[Andrew Pitonyak]

I have one and it seems to work fine. I have not used another shoulder plane so I cannot tell you how it compares to others. I own Lie Nielsen planes as well as some Stanley planes. My LN planes generally adjust more easily than my Stanley planes, so, I expect the same for the shoulder plane.

My plane came with what I consider a damaged screw. I checked the store and the other one at Woodcraft had the same defect. I posted about it here:

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?p=1534199#poststop