To celebrate its 35th anniversary, Lee Valley also introduced what feels like a really solid limited-edition Veritas marking gauge made of stainless steel. Also new is a small infill plane, a low-profile planing stop that works like a bench dog but spans two dog holes instead of one (dogs are adjustable to fit your particular bench) and an adjustable bar gauge, which comes with three different tips that fit the ends of the bars so that you easily can measure both inside dimensions or outside ones.
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If you have attended any of the Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Events in the last year and you have a sharp eye, then you probably noticed an odd-looking low-angle jack plane on one of the benches.
It’s much like the No. 62 that Lie-Nielsen has been making for many years, but its sidewalls are open so you can cut rabbets on either the left or right side of the tool. And it has cross-grain nickers.
The tool will cost $245, the same price as the No. 62. The body is 12-3/4” long with a 2-1/8”-wide blade.
I got to use a production version of the tool while teaching a class Saturday. Here are some first impressions.
The tool is nicely balanced and solid. My No. 1 concern with these sorts of tools is that the bed of the tool – the part that supports the iron – will flex under pressure from the lever cap. When this happens, the plane will cut in a seemingly unpredictable fashion because the sole has been made somewhat convex.
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