> On Sep 29, 2014, at 12:18 , Ron Harper  wrote:
> 
> anybody made one of these to use on your shooting board? Results?  I Am
> having a hard time pulling the trigger on a 400 plane purchase.

May as well make myself highly obnoxious here. When I
switched to all-handtools, I was shooting every board,
and probably would have bought the LN shooting plane if
it had been out at the time.

However, I learned on this here porch that you don't
have to shoot every board. Some stuff won't be visible,
whether it's in the back/inside/top or covered up with
moulding, and there's no point in a precise edge. If
you want to get rid of saw marks but don't need a perfect
reference edge, hit it with a sharp smoothing plane a
few times after assembly.

So, in short, my answer to the perfect shooting board
plane is just to stop shooting everything. Desire for
$400-500 shooting plane is now gone.

Adam
Port Angeles, WA