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   lwilliams | Apr 24, 2002 11:09pm | #1

   MEZKDZ,

   I have a few Lie-Nielsen planes. Though I have big hands and wear an extra-large glove, my favorite is the #2. If you're the type of wood worker who has to  have all four fingers around the tote, then you're not going to like the #2 much. I don't work that way and prefer to wrap my  hands around the plane and the #2 comes as close as you'll get to the kind of feed back a wooden plane offers as to plumb sides and a level sole.

   I wish they'd make a York pitch frog for the #2 but I am glad mine has the older W-1 steel iron which I think is better than the current A-2. If I'd known they were going to switch, I'd have bought extra irons. My guess as to the reason for the switch is that Carpenter Technologies quit offering tool steel in favor of exotic metals for the missile defense system and their substantial political contributions assured they'd be hard-wired in as the supplier for defense contractors. Carpenter was about the only supplier of W-1 tool steel in reasonably wide flat stock.

   
   

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   Edited 4/24/2002 4:11:36 PM ET by Larry Williams