Fun from "The Woodworking Show"--playing with Veritas planes
This weekend was the Indianapolis stop of “The Woodworking Shows” series, and I couldn’t pass it up. As usual, there were a bunch of seminars, a bunch of vendors doing demos, and a bunch of random junk. After getting through the junk (where I picked up a few triangular files for sharpening hand saws) and trying to sit through a few seminars geared towards people who were clearly not me, I spent a bit of time at the Lee Valley booth playing with some of the planes that have been on my wish list. Specifically, I spent a good deal of time with their bevel-up jack plane and smoother, and was quite impressed. The piece of wood they had clamped to the bench was a nasty p...
