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Recent Comments from Visitors
As someone completely new to woodworking, I've been
enjoying this site for a few months and the author's
have been extremely informative and entertaining. In the
past year I've rehabilitated my Dad's Stanley No. 5 and
I've got a No. 7 back in working order, although it
still needs some refining. So I've gotten comfortable
working with the metal planes and I'm really enjoying
developing my ability to use them.
However, I was recently given a Stanley No. 27 that
presented a new challenge. The plane has seen hard use
and I thought it would just wind up as a souvenir. The
throat has been so abused that I wasn't sure that an
insert would be sufficient to bring it back to working
status, even if I was skillful enough to do the job.
Smalzer's excellent and concise presentation provides
exactly the information I needed to get this plane into
my working tool inventory. Thanks!
On Other Matters
"When we
build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be
for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be
such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let
us think...that a time is to come when those (heirlooms)
will be held sacred because our hands have touched them,
and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and
wrought substance of them, ‘See! This our father did for
us." - John Ruskin.
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