• 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.

  • 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...

  • I was sorely tempted to pick up their violin plane

    Seen one of them on Ben Crowe's wall of tool porn but from what I've seen of his videos he does most of his shaping by chip carving and sanding or with a shinawa saw rasp.

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