Hi all,
Ive been following the development and relaunch of the xplane from union. It is based off of an old design with a 2" blade and a 9" sole. The union planes have an interesting design where they have an adjustable mouth (this run with have a fine adjuster screw), a latera adjustment lever that pivots the blade in the same direction as the adjustment (should take some getting used to) which is placed much lower then the stanley based models. This means you need to creat a lot more travel to move the blade lateraly . Again, a finer tuning then the Stanley's. Lastly the blade advancmwnt screw is a vert8cal mechanism that claims to give much finer control of blade advancment the equivalent Stanley planes. It seems to me that this plane might be an ideal smoother. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with the company (as a relaunched brand) and can give any informal into QC, fit, finish and machine performance. It se3ms on paper like a really good plane.