Modern Wooden Planes, Why?
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Let me be honest up front. I do know how to use a hand plane, and I have used a jointer plane once or twice. But it was a metal-bodied plane only remotely similar to a wooden-bodied plane as used during the 18th Century. I liked the feel of the plane, and it's long body made sense for one of its purposes of shooting edges to join boards...

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