Quote Originally Posted by Peter Quinn View Post
Last summer I bought and flattened, cleaned, tuned, honed tweaked and carressed a $15 Bailey #4 1/2? bench plane for more than 20 hours over a long weekend.
Before you started, when you did all your test planing to see what was wrong with it, what in particular about how it was cutting led you to believe that the sole needed that much flattening?