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I've got a low angled block plane and a brass smoothing plane and I love them but I struggled to justify the cost when I bought them.
Bobbo-
Lovely things; I guess you can easily justify them over the next 30+ years of use, in which case they're cheap - just that inital outlay!
I was sorely tempted to pick up their violin plane for shaping the top of a guitar I was working on:
https://www.lie-nielsen.com/products/violin-makers-plane
It's probably the only use I'd get out of it, a job that would take a couple of hours, and it's something I do once every 18 months.... I was close though...
christianSpaceman
I probably wouldn't buy one, but I have tried a really well maintained Lie Nielsen. They're absolutely beautiful to use, it took wafer thin shavings on a crazy grained fretboard. Really satisfying!