So much better than years past!
I, too, picked up a LH skew rabbet.
So much better than years past!
I, too, picked up a LH skew rabbet.
It looks like right now (Thursday morning) there are still 20 tpi dovetail saws available!
I had my days off, I thought it was today. Oh well theres always next year.
Rob, hopefully in the future the product supply challenges that we see today will be resolved. Having said that, it would have been nice if the customers who have had product on order for months and will still need to wait for months to have had advance right to refusal on the seconds. I would have jumped at the chance to pick up seconds of the mortise chisels I have on order.
Well, consider me fortunate then, because i was clueless of the sale this year. A buddy texted me at 11:59 or 12:00 and simply said "lee valley seconds sale Go! Go! Go!". Maybe a minute later i had a large shoulder plane in a cart and i checked out. Its something i dont have in my arsenal and ive waited and waited for one to hit the used market for 2-3 years. When i first got in through the waiting room, 95% of the planes were available. By the time i checked out and got back to the main page at 12:04 or whatever, 75% were sold out.
I support this idea, but hopefully we won't be in backorder purgatory next year
Totally missed the announcement this time. So much for an early Santa.
Question: "When is the Lie-Nielsen seconds sale?"
Answer:"There are no Lie-Nielsen seconds."
Received my plane on saturday. Lee Valley is up there with the best of them.
I got my Custom 4-1/2 today and was a little surprised – it looks to my eye like the defect was that the casting was dropped and one of the corners of the sole was warped, so the sole isn't flat. I've bought plenty of the seconds, and this is the first time there was a defect that'd affect usability. (I think it's only the second time I've ever been able to find the "defect" at all, which is a testament to LV's standards.)
I'd contact customer service. The sale clearly stated that none of the imperfections affected functionality. Perhaps one of the functionally imperfect soles got placed in the wrong pile and not caught.
My large shoulder plane is virtually defect free. There is a small circular visual mark that is a slightly different color/tone from the surrounding metal.