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First Plane?
OK Folks, they say confession is good for the soul.
So I decided to come clean. I don't own a plane. There, I said it. But I don't feel much better. All this time I've been masquerading as a fairly accomplished woodworker (to my lay friends anyway) and I don't even own a plane. Oh I have lots of nice machines. Thickness planer, yes, power plane too, but not one honest neander plane. Being self-taught instead of instructed, I have just blundered along, somehow managing to turn out some stuff that I wasn't ashamed of by making do with what I had. I have decided that the woodworking gods must be appeased and they won't let my skills progress any farther until I have made the sacrifice and purchased a plane, and learned to tune and use it. Question is, what should I buy, seeing as how I'm still a virgin (plane-wise). I'd rather not buy something from the BORG that I'll outgrow in a year. I don't yet have the skills to really appreciate a fine piece of equipment, but I'm willing to fork over the dough and grow into it. I just don't want to blunder into some specialty item that's not versitile enough. OK, enough grovelling, what say you? DonkeyHody "Every man is my superior in that I can learn from him." |
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