Re: feel of the LN 073?
William Duffield, on the Cohansey
>Nope, it's not odd that you should feel that it is too sharp on the corners. It is, right out of the box. The LV is better in that respect, except in one place, the hole in the top of the casting, in front of the handle. The LV still could use some improvement in other places, but doesn't need quite as much work with a fine file and some very fine sand paper. Both planes are much improved and much easier to hold and control if the arises are rounded just a little where your hand meets the plane. The worst spots on the L-N are where the pin that the handle pivots on goes through the body casting, the edges of the cast indentations in the sides of the nose, and the top rear corners of the moveable nose block.
Like all tools, you will have to consider that either one of these planes is a kit, just a very nearly complete kit. I own the L-N, and have used the LV only briefly, but I think the LV is more plane for less money. At least, I think you will find the learning curve a little less steep at the onset. It won't produced significantly better results than the L-N in a trained hand, but it's eaiser to set up and adjust.
All these opinions, and those of the others, have been expressed many times on this forum, so you need to use the Search function to access the accumulated wisdom. The problem is that there are very few people here who have used both extensively. I don't think I remember anyone who owns and has used either one of these extensively and still would rather use something else for the task these were designed to do best.