Just picked up this beauty

[Keith Christopher]

Arrived a couple of days ago ! Can't wait to make some shavings with it !

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[Jim Koepke]

Looking forward to some pictures of nice fluffy curls of shavings.

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[Rob Luter]

Nice. I’d like to have a 5 1/2 but I’m afraid it would never get used considering the projects I take on. I used to have a #6 and it was a super effective dust collector.

[Stephen Rosenthal]

I use my 5 1/2 all the time. Chose it instead of a #5. Ordered it with a 50* frog so I could interchange it with the 45* frog on my #7. Then on a whim I bought a toothed blade when LN was still offering it, which surprisingly gets used fairly often.

[Keith Christopher]

I saw it as having the best of both worlds in one plane. Don't really need a jointer (famous last words right) but it can to the trick with a longer sole. but also able to flush dovetails, I have a few block planed and a #4 I refurbished as LN scraper plane and beading plane. So this made sense. I looked at wood river and Lee Valley/Veritas and the LN while slightly more $ just seemed to be the choice. hopefully i get to fiddle with it this weekend.

[Rob Luter]

I saw it as having the best of both worlds in one plane. Don't really need a jointer (famous last words right) but it can to the trick with a longer sole. but also able to flush dovetails, I have a few block planed and a #4 I refurbished as LN scraper plane and beading plane. So this made sense. I looked at wood river and Lee Valley/Veritas and the LN while slightly more $ just seemed to be the choice. hopefully i get to fiddle with it this weekend.

I already have a #3, #4, #4 1/2, #5, #62, and #7. The #5 has a roughing and standard blade. With the roughing blade it’s like a monster scrub plane. The #62 has a toothed blade plus two standard blades with a 25 and 40 degree grind respectively. It’s my squirrelly grain plane. I’ve got all the bases pretty much covered.

[Keith Christopher]

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So I finally got some time to make some curlies ! Man this thing cuts like it was a hot knife through butter on this hard maple.
I had to clean up some tool marks froma rip cut this is for my Moxen Vise.