On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:28:50 -0500, Gordon Airporte
wrote:

Vince Heuring wrote:
Yup, Santa brought me my first plane, a Veritas block plane. Now I just
need to learn how to use the thing. :-)

Oh, and I need to get a vise and drill dog holes in my workbench. The
tool buying never ends...

Chances are your sharpening department will inflate too. If you don't
already have them, go right to water stones and skip the
sandpaper-and-glass stuff (that's where everyone seems to end up
anyway.) And of course the sharpening jigs...

Holy crap! The quantity of sharpening stuff accumulated over a
lifetime of woodworking adds up to quite a lot of $ and can take up a
good bit of space too.

oil stones, waterstones, sandpaper/glass plate system, honing guides
for the previous 3, Then there's the Tormek and it's associated jigs,
etc., etc. Yikes.

Personally, I use a Tormek. Most of the time.