Jake Spiller:
> on this site called "COLLECTING".  Initial symptoms are "I already
> got a #5 but I'll just get a 5C to keep it company."  If this begins
> to happen, pray to User Tool Gods for deliverence, because the road
> down to collecting is steep and slippery.

Believe this. Especially the part about the #5. I've only been on this
list for a few weeks. Yet last weekend, I started sliding down this
slope myself.

I was at a flea market with SWMBO. She says, look one of those planes
you like! I say, I already have a #5. But then it starts calling to
me. I look at it. It's in better shape then the one I've been
using. The lateral adjustment is different (better too).

Before I know it, I'm saying, "I could set one rank, and...".

Yep I bought it.

There's still hope, I've actually used both #5's since then, but I
caught myself looking at marking gauges too. Why would I need another?
To set one to each possible setting? Well, then I could get a *lot* of
them...

I may need help.

On a more serious note, I also saw the most cheaply built #5 I've ever
seen. All sheet metal, body, frog, cap and all. It was so awful that
if it had been priced accordingly, I would have gotten it as a bad
example to show people. As it was, the marked price was three times
what I paid for an average #5 (of indeterminate brand, at least to
this newbie, but lots of real cast iron).

Jim Buchanan        c22jrb@d...      jbuchana@e... 
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"When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their
 tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"
 -Blake
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