Originally Posted by
David Weaver
I think the point about the scrub is that it's a bit of a novelty - in my opinion it sells well because it's on the far extreme of the setups and people get enamored with it on a test board. It's not as nice to use to thickness a board, in my opinion, as a rank set (larger footprint) jack plane, and I don't like it any better for adjusting the width of a board. My rank set jack is radius 4" or so, so take that with a grain of salt. It's wider than a scrub plane, which makes it a bit nicer to use in my opinion.
jack is to smooth as scrub is to jack
jack will get you there, but in twice the time and effort, just like a smooth plane might get a jack's work done
I find efficiency more fun.
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