On 16 Sep 2004 19:26:23 -0700, (r. mcelhaney)
wrote:

a smoothing plane
(Taiwanese thing). I tried to follow all the advice that has been
posted over the years:

What about the bit that said don't buy modern mass-market planes ?

Read Jeff Gorman's site, buy this month's FWW (Charlesworth tunes a
new Record) and read this group again - couple of plane tuning threads
in the last week.

Good smoothing is (nearly) as much about rigidity as it is about
sharpening. Check that the frog bone is connected to the sole bone,
the cap bone connected to the iron bone, etc.