Exactly! For 2000 irons! With a glut like that, you might be able to sell
'em for twenty bucks apiece! (G)

just getting the blades I have made now are a battle. they keep costing more and
I still have to have them surface ground. I would not like all my planes to have
laminated blades (G) though I wish I could get them all with laminated blades
and chuck the solid O-1.

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