Plan to spend an extended amount of time tuning this plane and sharpening the blade. I am operating on a very limited budget so I had to go with the cheaper route for my planes. I'll have the plane set up nicely when I'm finished with it, but it is a significant amount of work out of the box. The sole wasn't flat, the mouth wasn't square, the bed wasn't flat, the blade.... basically a butter knife, and it did take a good few hours to make it a decent tool. For a plane of this size, it wasn't a huge effort, but it is an effort and it is time spent tuning rather than time spent working wood.