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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.
Bobbo-
Yes - I think he became a bit of a convert to doing guitar carves with hand tools the past couple of years. I guess having the luxury of time to do it once his business got up to speed helped a lot.
His early videos (before the tool porn wall - back in his shed) he used to attack almost everything (guitar bodys and necks) with a grinder with a flap disk on it. It was all a bit stressful to watch at times!
christianSpaceman
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...