On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:54:56 -0400, Mike Patterson
wrote:

Why do you make anything in your shop (assuming that you do) when
you've seen _real_ versions of the same thing?

Because mine are better, and sometimes someone is even paying me to do
it.

This is a plane that differs from a few hundred years of
well-established plane designs. Now there's nothing wrong with that,
but in every place they've changed it, they've made it worse.

The iron is a two piece with a cap iron, yet they're both held by a
single screw. You have to release the relative position of the two of
them whenever you move the iron in the sole. Even worse, the cap iron
appears to be _fixed_, and fixed relative to the sole rather than the
iron. How on earth are you supposed to adjust this ?

Lateral location is by a wooden block in the centre of the iron. This
isn't what that slot is for, and it's not good enough to do it. For
one thing, wear of this tiny area on a small wooden plug is going to
wear slack in no time. For another, the torque arm to this tiny
central block means that it will never hold it central as well as an
accurately fitting mouth, or a mouth with screws. This is a laminated
plane body - it's easy to make a tight side-fitting mouth.

After long use (if ever) you won't be able to move the sharpened iron
forwards, because it fouls on the lateral location block.

A Hock iron. Why ? Who are they trying to fool that this lump
deserves a half-decent iron ?

What's with the knob ? That's a drawer pull, intended for two-finger
grip from beneath, not for pressure from above. Why does a plane with
a carved wooden toe even need this ugly wart bolting to it ?

Brass sledge runners ? What on earth are they for, other than
scribing tramlines into your work ?

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Smert' spamionam