"Jeff Kingsley" wrote:

I bought a smoothing Buck Brothers Plane because of its price. It was
next to useless until I took it apart and re-ground the chip breaker
to sit on the blade properly. After that it worked quite well. I think
my next purchase of a plane will be a L-N.

Why? The LN will cost you at least 4-6x the BB plane and you already know
how to make one of the BB planes work quite well.