Did you get the Bridge City Mailer?
Telemike
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I got a mailer from Bridge City yesterday announcing their new plane. And what a plane it is! It has a variable angle blade so it can be bedded from about 30 deg to 90 deg. It looks like a piece of jewelry just like all their tools. The innovations make it yet another move forwards for a tool that everyone except Thomas Lie-Neilson and Leonard Lee thought was already perfect. You can see it on their website:
http://www.bridgecitytools.com/ok_default.html
Unfortunately, the price ensures that I won’t own one unless I get the right six numbers on the right day!
If anyone has used this, I’d be interested in what you think of it.
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I was looking at it last night.... nice looking tool....but the price.....Oi Vey.....
not one I'll be adding to my wish list....
Mike Wallace
Stay safe....Have fun
What is the price anyway? I got one of those flyers but could never find the listed price. Must have been in the fine print somewhere.
Gary
Des-you are right-what is the price anyway:-):-)
Actually the price is fifteen hundred and twenty bucks, which although I am not a member of the cognoscenti class I think is fair when you consider that a fine several- in- one plane like that will last several lifetimes. Look at the web site for more....
I must insist that Mr. Economaki changes the shape of the handle before I buy this plane.<g>Philip Marcou
Edited 10/15/2005 1:10 am by philip
$1599.00Alan & Lynette Mikkelsen, Mountain View Farm, est. 1934, Gardens & Fine Woodworking, St. Ignatius, MT
Much like a Shopsmith ..... spend too much time changing the setup for different situations! For that kind of cash, you can have a full set of vintage planes ready to go, and have enough left over for a few hundred board feet of nice hardwood! I'll pass, on this and the L/N and others. I can almost hear those guys giggling in the background .... all the way to the bank with your hard-earned money.
John in Texas
"...could never find the listed price." I'll bet your eyes saw it and your brain said "Nope, nope, nope." It just never made it through the filters to your consciousness. ROFL! forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)Another proud member of the "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>)
No need to correct anything , old chap-got the hang of it...
In my next life time I will be a maker of fine tools, rather than furniture as at present.This is because there will be much less good timber to go around and far more collectors rather than users of Economopoulos type marvels....
When I have the money in hand I buy nice tools.....and use them also. I have some Bridge City layout and marking tools that are excellent and have a lifetime repiar policies. I have never questioned whose lifetime they are referring to. I would love to hear some users opinions but know that BC is a great maker. aloha, mike
I think they must have really took a hard fall with the Woodsmith 25th anniversary square(s) fiasco. I have those three squares and they are all square and the scales are correct (unlike many of them that got out there). Woodsmith also sent me two books out of the blue to make up for the fact that they might not be square. What a "goat rope" it must've been for them! That is as close as I will ever come to Bridge City tools. I've developed the opinion that they are more about marketing, hype, and collecting than real usage.
I'm looking at my elegant flyer/calendar right now. The price is $1500.00, with either the lacquered totes or the waxed totes. And they'll throw in the $125.00 custom fitted walnut storage case free. Of course, you have to pay $19.95 shipping and handling. At $1500, couldn't they just ship it for nothing, Amazon.com-style? If Donald Trump did his own woodworking, he'd probably buy one.
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