Veritas low angle block plane

Welcome to the club! Love my 3 Veritas planes.

David

AAvK wrote:

Thanks. Which ones do you have?

Last week I wanted to put a nice edge on about 8 feet of edging. I was trying to decide on a roundover bit or a bevel bit on the router. Then I spotted the LV plane and put a nice edge with a few passes of the plane. It is just so sweet to glide along making a thin swirl of wood shaving. Much quieter and cleaner than using a router.

Enjoy the plane. Every shop should have one.

Yep, I find myself going tail-less more and more also. A low-angle block plane to break the edges instead of using a sander or router. I may actually have made the break-through to using a smoothing plane, a scraper plane, and a scraper instead of the ROS for final finish prep. It's actually faster and quieter than stepping through 5 grits of sandpaper. The only part that is giving me some grief is the transition from rail to stile -- trying to keep that joint area smooth for each of the grain directions is giving me a bit of a problem.

Army General Richard Cody

latest tool I have is a less than $20 tool, the 3 in 1 marking gauge. If you haven't paid attention to it, you should. :-)

Great plane for tweaking drawers and cabinet doors. I've been so impressed with mine that I won't take it out of the shop ... anything that needs tweaking comes to it.

I bought a Lee Nielson low angle many years ago and it does the bulk of hand planing in my shop. max

the LV plane and put a nice edge with a few

wood shaving. Much quieter and cleaner than using

Just awesome quality!

haven't paid attention to it, you should. :-)

Oh zhees I had seen that in the latest catalog and forgot about it, I coulda had them toss one in the box easily! Oh well, next time.

I get it... the plane gives you this special feeling that it is precious! But I will take it to adult ed. and use it, and show it off... he he

Nice for you I bet. But for me, the Veritas is at the level of only saving up for one.

Me too. I now have the LA block, medium shoulder, large shoulder, bullnose / chisel, cabinet scraper, and curved spoke shave. My shoulder planes and the block are true workhorses and a joy to own.

I've got some old Stanley's like a #4 and some #5's with Hock irons, but don't use them enough to justify replacing them with Veritas. I used the #4 to put a final smoothing on some glue-ups yesterday, and it still sings to me. I rarely use the #5's, doing most of what I'd use them for with machines.

Barry

Try the Saddle Square, it's surprisingly useful. I keep it in the apron, 'cause the marks are rarely where they meet the blade.

Barry

The medium shoulder plane, low angle smoother, and the scraper plane. The scraper plane is AWESOME. In fact, all of them are fabulous tools that work beautifully. Once I got ONE Veritas plane, I knew I'd be getting more. Lucky for me, I got them as gifts!

Dave

AAvK wrote:

What Barry said.

David

Ba r r y wrote:

You suck.

Hey, you gotta tell 'em what you want for Christmas when the family asks! Otherwise you'll be getting ties, slippers, and junk. :)

Dave

Silvan wrote:

This Christmas my wife and I presented my parents with the Lee Valley Christmas catalog with the items we wanted circled -- red for me, green for her.

We are both very satisfied with what we got.

--RC "Sometimes history doesn't repeat itself. It just yells 'can't you remember anything I've told you?' and lets fly with a club. -- John W. Cambell Jr.

beautifully. Once I got ONE Veritas plane, I

Oh... you lucky blessed DOG!

Alex