While in Spokane yesterday, we stopped into the local Woodcraft store. I wanted to pick up a low angle block plane to use for "touching up" the miters on the windows I am getting ready to trim out.
The only low angle block plane they had in the store was a Wood River. I looked at it. On sale for $79? I decided to take a chance. Today I have been doing some remedial grunt work for the contractor who is building the addition to our kitchen. If I do the grunt work, he doesn't have to pay "paid labor" to do it and it saves me money. So I have been pulling staples and scraping glue off floors and baseboard area of the walls. I finally decided to sharpen my painters 5-1 tool on my Work Sharp 3000. When I was done, I thought since I have it set up to use....
I got my new low angle block plane out of the hand tool rolling cart. I disassembled it, wiped it down with lacquer thinner...and dried all the parts. After sharpening the blade, I put it back together, adjusted the blade and I was happy with the results.