Hello! GG's

jsut read the latest FFW Smoothing Planes Article and although I liked
the pretty Pictures
it seemed to be lacking in technical information. I may have just been
the casual timber
of the article, but comments like it took 1 hour to flatten the back amd
another to
form the bevel,  I wnat to know why it took so long , what about the
plane was incorrect.

I guess what I am trying to say is that the article did not give me any
"ammo" to start comparison shopping of my own.

Oh and there was that twinge of pain when the brands that I have grown
up
with, hock, lie Nielsen St James Bay , are slighted in favor of the new
kid on the block.

Aaron taak

p.s.  give me details , not another Coffee Table article

p.s.2 I do have his book and Love it - great droolability index between
them thar covers