Veritas Premium Block Planes

[Frank Pellow]

It's always interesting to see a thread that you started come back to life.  

By the way I did eventually obtain one of these planes and it is every bit as good as I had been led to believe it would be.   [smile]  My wife gave me a DX60 model as a birthday present last year.

 

[bruce-ter]

My wife thought I was a little overboard when I called that plane beautiful, so she got me a Stanley block plane from the hardware store (Hardware Sales).  After untold hours with sandpaper and a large piece of glass, it was close to OK.  Still a little factory roughness on the front edge of the mouth and a little on the back of the blade right at the cutting edge.  But I used it today on the top of a door and was happy with the long curls when I was working with the grain and OK with the short broken curls on the end grain pieces.  A little too coarse of a blade setting but this was my first attempt at setting up a plane and I am quite happy.
Bruce

 

[PaulMarcel]

My wife thought I was a little overboard when I called that plane beautiful, so she got me a Stanley block plane from the hardware store (Hardware Sales).  After untold hours with sandpaper and a large piece of glass, it was close to OK.  Still a little factory roughness on the front edge of the mouth and a little on the back of the blade right at the cutting edge.  But I used it today on the top of a door and was happy with the long curls when I was working with the grain and OK with the short broken curls on the end grain pieces.  A little too coarse of a blade setting but this was my first attempt at setting up a plane and I am quite happy.
Bruce

I think implicitly your wife gave you permission to buy zirconia for future Valentine's days

 

[Gaijin Daiku]

I bought the nickel version of the Veritas plane.

In addition to it looking like something out of Buck Rogers' toolbox (space ships must have toolboxes, right?), it is a wonderful tool.