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Title: Hand plane? What hand plane!
Review: Product description declare: "woodworkers have been left without any moderately priced choice between the construction of contemporary Stanley planes and the price of premium tools like Cliftons or Lie-Nielsens".Woodworkers? I just cannot imagine that any woodworker professional or hobbyist will use this so called "hand plane". Chip-breaker and iron are totally useless; you are not going to be able to restore them. Sole is total mess; you will need at least 0.03-0.05" cutting/lapping of the entire sole to flatten it. Are you really ready for such job? Frog is also not flat. And finally this is not BedRock design.Altogether, purchase of the plane was waste of the money. Companies like Anant rely on novices (I was too) that would like to buy a bargain. Well, is it? Question is "why does Highland Woodworker sell this cr*p?"
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