Everytime I pick one of these planes up and hear the sharp iron kissing the wood , passing fine thin curls from its mouth, I can’t help but wonder who had pushed these planes before me and what did they make? I’ll never really know, but the romance of woodworking is forever locked inside these planes.
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well I am very familiar with wooden planes for thatare the ones I used when I went to vocational training school in Amsterdam in 1953/56.yes we made doors from rough sawn wood and planed the wood with thse wooden planes. Yes hard work especially when I started out a a 13 year old boy in the carpenter shop