Originally Posted by
Steven Harrison
Hi Jim and thanks. Unfortunately I am nowhere near the Portland area or I would take you up on your offer. LN is having their Hand Tool Events and will be in Nashville in November which is about 5 hours away from me. Not sure I can get the will power to wait that long though. I usually start with a 5 with a cambered iron when dimensioning and then move to a 6 since it's the longest plane I have before using the smoother.
Seems like you lucked out with the 8. Have you ever used a high angled frog? Thanks for all of the insight
My bench planes are almost exclusively Stanley/Bailey models, so there isn't any with a high angle frog.
Not so long ago it seemed luck struck again for a #8. There was a beat up #8c with a few things missing and a broken frog. For $5 it seemed like a decent deal. To me it is my most expensive $5 plane. A replacement frog cost me ~$40. Now it is sitting waiting for me to get the motivation to put it together and give it a try. It will likely be like when there were a pair of #7s taking in the shop. One of them ended up going to someone else.
jtk
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