Re: Limited production and resultant demand
David Weaver
There's some staleness to a bedrock, but it's probably a technically superior plane.
(except for the quality of the heat treatment in the irons - the knight irons are among the best I've ever seen in terms of O1 - easily. Steve may have missed his calling a little bit by not making those in stanley/LN/etc replacements.)
That said, the fascination with bedrock is another cognitive or is cognitively absent, or whatever the right way to say it would be.
They are a huge minority vs. the bailey planes. Therefore, it must be because they were a secret higher level plane that nobody knew about. So, we should collect and use them because they're better than bailey planes.
Except....they aren't. I don't know what this would be called - it's the same thing that draws people to boutique house bands that aren't any better than some mainstream artists. The desire to be in on a secret or something.
I bought two planes from steve early on. they were well executed and reflected what everyone was interested in at the time, and he didn't charge enough (in my opinion) to incent himself to stay in the business of making them. His planes are the dearmond of the plane world.
(yes on the cars, though - Jensen needs a few celebrities to talk about how great they are. I wonder how much the early ferraris would be worth if they'd only stayed in business for a couple of years....$48.4MM for one 250 GTO? Where are the cars they raced against?).