>
> >     Regarding plane sole flattening. My friend Plane-O-Man insists that it
> >is necessary to flatten the sole of his planes to within .0002".
>
> HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.  And your are going to measure that and use that in
> your environmentally STP controlled whiteroom shop, right?  On wood???
>
> >I still have my doubts about all of this technoplaning, but I am still
> >curious about what others think.
>

It's way obvious that planes need to be somewere-near-flat. It is also
obvious (from discussions here and elsewhere) that nobody knows
*how* flat (what our metalhead friends call tolerance).

Given the perfectionist bent of some list-dwellers, the obvious
conclusion is "as-flat-as-possible".

Survey: Who (of the people who claim flat ain't needed) would turn
down an offer by a metal-head friend to surface grind a user plane
FOC?

        BugBear.