On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 01:49:21 GMT, acronym
wrote:

Perhaps the age - its a sweetheart version - has something to do with the
quality.

Maybe - what did you spend your two hours working on ? Did you have
anything resembling a sharp edge under the cap iron, or was it hugely
rounded like most are now ?

There was a hilarious article in FWW awhile back, where Brian Boggs
(who surely knows his spokeshaves) showed how to tune a #151 by
throwing most of it away and making new parts.


--
There's more than one way to skin a cat...

...but I still prefer the electric belt sander.