I have been doing amateur woodwork for a while now. I use vintage hand tools mostly. Until now I have not owned a block plane but I have been itching to find one. Alas, all my garage sale and flea market roamings have not yielded anything at all. I have a full range of Stanley Bailey's as well as odd planes like compass planes and fillisters. Today, I bumped into a Stanley 220, the modern blister pack edition . So I figured I must give it a shot. Needless to say, it took a lot of elbow grease to get it flat, square, sharp and all surfaces mating. It had a skew throat and a heavily concave sole. But....after I finished with it...I realised why the universe has been nudging my curiosity towards block planes. It is an amazingly versatile tool. I got so carried away trying it that I made a kiaat cutting board from rough stock))
The epiphany then...I can not afford LN and LV toools in general, but I will get myself one of their block planes. It is an amazing tool. Perhaps a DX60
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