I've just finished work on two new No. 3 infill planes for the Lie-Nielsen hand tool event this weekend in the arts district of downtown Los Angeles.

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This one, built for a client in Tahoe, is in Honduran rosewood with a French polish. The pitch is 52.5 degrees.

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This one, with a 45-degree pitch, is in Bastogne walnut, sometimes called paradox walnut, a rare hybrid of English walnut and black walnut found in Northern California. The figure in Bastogne walnut can be extraordinary - fiddleback, even the occasional birdseye, as you may see here:

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I am also working on a No. 4 in snakewood - the densest, toughest wood I've ever run into. I'll post photos when it's done.