On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:11:44 +0000, Doug White wrote:

With Christmas coming, I'm thinking I could finally get myself a good
block plane. I've seen decent reviews of Veritas's planes, and Lie
Nelson is probably too pricey. None of the reviews I've read put the
Stanleys in the same general class as the Veritas planes.

Your best bet for the money is an *old* Stanley. All the info you need
on the 9 1/2 and the 60 or 60 1/2 can be found at:

http://www.supertool.com/StanleyBG/stan0a.html

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