Allan Speers
10-01-2015, 4:52 AM
Oh my !
http://www.leevalley.com/US/wood/page.aspx?p=73208&cat=51&ap=1
Has anyone gotten their hands on this puppy yet? The obvious question is, how does this compare to their dedicated shooting plane, as a general purpose shooter?
The price is almost the same. It seems to me that this plane would also work as a sort of "large block plane." Sadly, it doesn't have a skewed blade, though I guess a ramped shooting board would compensate for that. (How cool would it be to have a skewed-blade block plane?) The blade is only 2" wide, so you couldn't have much of a ramp, but it would still work.
One thing I don't like is that it wouldn't work with a guide rail, and that's something I'd like to have on my next shooting board.
http://www.leevalley.com/US/wood/page.aspx?p=73208&cat=51&ap=1
Has anyone gotten their hands on this puppy yet? The obvious question is, how does this compare to their dedicated shooting plane, as a general purpose shooter?
The price is almost the same. It seems to me that this plane would also work as a sort of "large block plane." Sadly, it doesn't have a skewed blade, though I guess a ramped shooting board would compensate for that. (How cool would it be to have a skewed-blade block plane?) The blade is only 2" wide, so you couldn't have much of a ramp, but it would still work.
One thing I don't like is that it wouldn't work with a guide rail, and that's something I'd like to have on my next shooting board.