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    Quote Originally Posted by Michael J Evans View Post
    I can believe that Craftsman of old wanted light easy to use wood planes...
    Craftsman = light and cheap.
    "Anything seems possible when you don't know what you're doing."

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    Because, most of the time, they had to carry all their tools with them, from job to job....

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    Quote Originally Posted by andy bessette View Post
    Craftsman = light and cheap.
    WRONG Craftsman? I doubt if a Tradesman back then would tolerate being called "Light & Cheap"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Graham Haydon View Post
    Modern heavy planes. Good for taking a few fine shavings when the bulk of work is done by machines or lighter planes. They also provide a muse for those wanting to create planes that are faberge eggs, perfection to be admired but don't make the surface of the wood any better.

    Yours would perhaps be useful faberge eggs.
    I have a couple of those Faberge Eggs. LN 4½s in bronze. Purdy in their boxes.

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