The swish of a LN62

So every now and then a tool comes along that is a game changer. I have been treating myself to a bit of the quarterly bonus from Squint Central. I have been eyeing Lie Nielsen planes for many years now. Got a nifty skew-angle block plane and a nice smaller scraper plane as a farewell gift when we left the valley in 2000. When I polled my tooling gurus, Dave suggested I try a LN62 and recommended adding the toothed blade. So I splurged, The box with this heirloom quality thing of beauty arrived a few days back. This morning I tried the toothed blade on some squirly, curly maple that needed to be thinned out for the back of one of the two next builds. Wow. The shavings are these hair thin wavy light threads. It's a joy to use.

As much as I complain about work, and complain I do. There are definitely advantages to that twice monthly pay check and the quarterly bonus certainly does not hurt. My shop contents is definitely improving, now if only my skills would.

The LN62 doing its thing. Each pass with the plane makes a perfect swish. The guitar building is a major part of my life, and the shop is my happy place, but I am trying not to flood this blog with shop talk. You can always visit powguitars.com if you want to see more.