Lie-Nielsen Scrub Plane Review
A little while back when I posted on the large cabinet scraper, I mentioned the next purchase was to be the scrub plane and I would post on that also. Well so far it has been a real pleasure to use. Fit and finish is excellent and this tool also has a nice hefty feel to it. The blade just needed a little light honing and was ready to go. There are no fine adjustments on this tool so you just drop the blade down to a depth that suits the work you are doing and tighten the thumbscrew.
I borrowed a friends Stanley 40 1/2 to try out for a while to see how a scrub plane actually works and that to worked very well but it just does not have the feel of the LN. The LN does have a larger hand grip in the rear so I can comfortably wrap all four fingers around the handle. The Stanley’s is smaller and made planning a little awkward. The LN also has a much thicker blade and so far I have not experianced any chatter.
A scrub plane really does remove material fast and leaves an interesting texture which could be left as is in some cases. Or you could use it to add a little character to some projects.
I am really getting hooked on the hand tool thing. It has really expanded my woodworking to another level. I am not ready to give up the power tools yet but they are getting used less often.
Boggs spoke shave is next on the list along with a No. 7 or 8 Jointer plane.
I will keep you posted.
Dale
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It's only fair that I warn you ... spokeshaves are dangerous. Once you start using them you will have a real hard time stopping. A sort of adiction worse that drugs. There are support groups... but breaking the habit is impossible. The Boggs spokeshave is the worst for this.... feels good in the hand ,cuts like the devil, holds an edge for a long time.....probably will be responsible for many divorces... It's not even afraid of figured wood. A real animal. Think it over well and be careful.
Philip
Philip
After reading your post I have decided to take the risk of addiction and most certainly make the spoke shave my next purchase. I wonder if there are any 12 step programs for this? Just incase.
Dale
Dale,
Someone tried a 12 step group for tool addicts a few years ago, but entirely without success. For any of these groups to work, there has to be at least a small desire on the part of the addicted person to overcome their addiction. Huh, like that will ever happen!
BTW, I've found that with a good coating of cosmoline, even a good chisel can be safely hidden in a toilet tank for up to 3 months.
Jeff
Why didn't you tell him the the 1st step of the 12 step program was to acquire 12 tools.
2nd step is 24 tools and so on......
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
I believe these groups follow the motto, "one day at a time", which by my calculations means 144 tools over the course of each step/day. I'm not sure how they count them, but it seems to me a prepackaged set, say of 25 router bits, would count as one tool, otherwise one could whimp out and buy one of those small boxes of assorted tools for $25 at any hardware or big box store, which would hardly seem right. These things do get complicated.
Jeff
no..no...no.... Here we have to distinguish between addictive and non addictive tools.That would have to be 144 addictive tools and as we all know real addictive things are expensive.... So lets just, as a general rule, say nothing under 50 bucks counts. We really can't have any fake addicts infiltrating can we.
Philip
I'm a little shocked to see such ignorance of tool rules shown in the Knots forum! Everyone knows that an official wooden or plastic box of stuff counts as a single item, no matter how many router bits it holds!
Thank you for clarifying this matter. Please understand, however, that ignorance of addiction is not ignorance of tools. Sort of like grandpa - he didn't know squat about alcholism, but sure knew how to distill some mighty good whiskey.
Jeff
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