Paul Kierstead
>From my perspective, its helpful to have planes that do more than smooth. I need planes that remove wood fast. So just to put this in perspective, when I have a problem area that needs to be taken down, tho I may not get the board as flat, my planes will get me close enough 14 times faster than my LN rep.s.

Well, Adam, you do know you can adjust your planes to take a lighter cut when you get closer to flat, right?

I'll give you that the LN rep was nuts, and lots of us use planes for rougher work (I do all flattening and jointing by hand, from rough wood), but characterizing it as "my planes vrs his" is a little off-base I think. You could just as easily have "your planes" set to take a minuscule shaving and he could have his set rank.

In other fields I have often found reps to be poorly informed (after all, they don't make their living doing, they make it selling), and for LN to have a few that are poorly informed wouldn't surprise me. Beyond that, it would seem that a great many WWers (or at least on-line ones) do just use them for smoothing, so perhaps he is just sucking up to them.