Lie-Nielsen - Advise

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John Weber - GO BUCKS!

>Guy,

I'm mostly a power tool guy, but I have a LN 62 and just received a Veritas scraper plane. Most people think the Veritas scraper is superior to the LN, I know I really like mine. The 62 is one of my most used planes. You might also check out Fine Tool Journal, they have about the best prices around for LN.

John


http://www.finetoolj.com/lnorder.html

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SimonA

>Howdy.... I think that I would probably go for a low angle jack(62) and a block plane(60.5).

SimonA in the UK

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paul womack

>Are you buying LN because you want to (understandable ;-) or because you have a woodworking requirement that only a LN can fulfil?

In the former case, buy whatever looks pretty and takes your fancy, in the latter the requirment defines the tool.

BugBear

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GolfSteve in Calgary

>I would forget the scraping plane for right now unless you're always working with some exotic wood that is impossible to plane. For most woods you can get a perfect surface with the plane. For any small spots that won't plane, use a card scraper.

You already have a #4 and a #8. The #164 might be a good addition (I don't have one).

The next planes that I would get are a block plane (60.5), then large shoulder plane, then the 60.5-R rabbet plane.

If you're not satisfied with your current #4, you will be absolutely delighted by the #4-1/2 with a high angle frog. The HAF is a big improvement in my opinion (You can also get the same effect by adding a back-bevel to your current #4).

If you dimension your wood by hand, a scrub plane would be high on my list.

Here's my list of planes:

1. 4-1/2 smoother with regular and high angle frog.

2. #8 jointer

3. Low angle block

4. 60-1/2R rebate block plane

5. Large shoulder plane

6. Scrub plane

The above 6 planes perform almost all of the tasks that I require. A #164 might occasionally be useful for trimming end-grain from dovetails, and perform well smoothing some woods.

Sorry for increasing your headache.

ps. Spokeshaves are kind of handy also

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todd stock

>I'll be contrary.

If you normally work in harder figured woods, you might consider a LN #4 with high angle frog (no extra charge) & improved chipbreaker (an extra $5), a LV #80 (improved model of Stanley #80 scraper), a low angle adjustable mouth block plane from either LN or LV (I have the LN, but the LV seems quite nice as well), and a good set of card scrapers from LN, LV, or Bacho (used to be Sandvik).

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Jim in Burlington Ontario

>Low angle planes either the smoother or jack they are very simple to use and adjust. I just ordered the LV scraper but have heard from people there is a steep learning to LN scrapers. If you don't have the adjustable mouth low angle plane nail that one down for sure.

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Don Thompson, Cutler Ridge, South of Miami FL

>I have found some of the L-N specialty planes to be very useful for adjusting joints, whether created by hand tools or machines. They are:

#73 Shoulder Plane

#98/99 Side Rabbet Planes

#140 Skew-blade Rabbet Block Plane

I will probably upgrade from my Stanley adjustable-mouth LA block plane to the L-N 60� in the future, based upon what folks tell me about it.