Yup, Santa brought me my first plane, a Veritas block plane. Now I just need to learn how to use the thing. :-)
Oh, and I need to get a vise and drill dog holes in my workbench. The tool buying never ends...
Woodcraft sells a book called PLANECRAFT. IMHO, it is worth the money.
Chances are your sharpening department will inflate too. If you don't already have them, go right to water stones and skip the sandpaper-and-glass stuff (that's where everyone seems to end up anyway.) And of course the sharpening jigs...
Garrett Hack's "Hand Plane" book is excellent.
Holy crap! The quantity of sharpening stuff accumulated over a lifetime of woodworking adds up to quite a lot of $ and can take up a good bit of space too.
oil stones, waterstones, sandpaper/glass plate system, honing guides for the previous 3, Then there's the Tormek and it's associated jigs, etc., etc. Yikes.
Personally, I use a Tormek. Most of the time.
What is your reasoning behind that ???
Do you really feel like the st If you don't already have them, go right to water stones and skip the sandpaper-and-glass stuff (that's where everyone seems to end up anyway.)
BTDT, but I'd recommend sandpaper-and-glass (scary sharp) to a beginner. The method is inexpensive and one can easily learn and understand the effect of a progression of grit sizes on sharpening speed and the resultant edge.
After learning these lessons, use whatever works.
(Just bought an Ice Bear 4k stone to replace my worn out King 4k stone.)
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