Bill Carey
06-25-2019, 1:11 PM
Finally got a chance to use the #4 smoothing plane from Caliastro. Being retired I was a bit averse to plunking down a couple of hundred when I had never had a #4 plane before. So I found the Caliastro for about 55 bucks and got it and tuned it up the best I know how, sharpened the blade and waited for a chance to really give it a go. I'm in the process of building a Stickley 962 server table and used the plane on the top after the glue up. It worked great. It's solid, the settings stay set, the sole is flat - all in all a decent tool. The shavings in the pictures are .004" and the plane was easy for this old fart to use. I know folks are going to say the difference between this and LN (for example) is night and day; and I may opt to purchase a high end plane once I know what night looks and feels like, so I can appreciate day. And I included the pic of the rough boards (part of the 60 bf I just got) because I like fleck. Just cuz.
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