Hey Rob?

Re: Hey Rob?

Rob Lee

>Hi Jonathan -

Won't be 'till after Christmas - tooling's ordered, but it'll be awhile before we see any components...16 weeks for the main ones....

But's there's lots of other stuff to distract you until then....

Cheers -

Rob

Re: Hey Rob?

AD

>Rob,

What about the larger shoulder plane? How long till available?

regards,

Andrew

Honing guide

Robin Frierson

>Rob, can you tell us more about the new honing guide. Does it square the blade and can it be used on the LV power sharpener? Do you have a photo?

Re: Hey Rob?

Rob Lee

>Hi Andrew -

The large shoulder should be 1 or two weeks...we're taking one to IWF in Atlanta though...

I believe it's just a matter of packing them....we had to focus on the concave spokeshaves first, and they've all shipped now.

Cheers -

Rob

Re: Honing guide

Rob Lee

>Hi Robin -

Yes it squares the blade... without picture/diagrams, it's not easy visualize how it works...but some features...

- it will take wider blades

- it has a larger range of angles (10 degrees at the low end, to over 50 at the high end)

- it has a wider roller

- it registers off the back face of a blade

- it will square the blade

- it clamps very positively

- it still has a micro-adjust

On the "we couldn't do that" list -

- It has the same problems with tall/narrow chisels that our current one does - no way to get around that unless you use a side clamping fixture

Price target was to have the same retail as the current one - but it will be more expensive (pricing isn't done, but my guess (and it IS a guess) is $10-20 more than the current)

Cheers -

Rob