What for Christmas? Large shoulder or spoke shaves

On 4 Dec 2004 05:26:39 -0800, [email protected] (Eric Anderson)
calmly ranted:

>I have not seen too many reviews of the Veritas Large Shoulder plane.
>I have the medium shoulder plane and the bullnose from Veritas. Love
>the shoulder plane, have not effectively used the bullnose yet.
>Because of that, I am looking for opinions of which to ask for: The
>large shoulder plane or a set of the new Veritas spokeshaves. I have
>a spokeshave that I use on occasion. I am always using the medium
>shoulder plane, but there are times I "think" I would like to have the
>mass and size of a larger one. However, the spokeshaves would add
>some versatility that I don't have right now. What say you?

Get a spokeshave kit from Ron Hock and build your own. I bought one
from Spokeshave eons ago and made one out of purkleheartless.

I believe that our own Conan The Librarian reviewed the Veritas
low-angle spokeshave here last year. DAGS for it. They've fixed the
glitch in the advanced search programming for Google Groups Beta now.
I saw to that personally. ;)


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On 4 Dec 2004 05:26:39 -0800, [email protected] (Eric Anderson)
wrote:

> I am always using the medium
>shoulder plane, but there are times I "think" I would like to have the
>mass and size of a larger one. However, the spokeshaves would add
>some versatility that I don't have right now. What say you?


They're totally different tools. What do YOU have the most use for?

Barry