Lie Nielsen Hand Tool Event

If I were to purchase a new plane it would be a Lie-Nielsen. I own their Low Angel adjustable mouth block plane and absolutely love it! The other folks are correct though with regards to your Stanley Planes. If you put some effort into fettling a plane you can get very good results

-- Chris

Hey Chris, let us not forget that FETTLING can be Fun.

-- I love the smell of sawdust in the morning....

Lie Nielsen makes the best hand tools period. Veritas may come close but for longevity and appearance and performance, I like LN. The first exposure I got to their toos was at the Atlanta Woodworking Show about 6 years ago. I got hooked immediately and have bought a lot of their stuff. This year, they have changed their marketing approach and will no longer go to the woodworking shows but have their own like you attended. This is a marketing mistake by LN. In my case, I had bee woodworking for 25 years, never heard of LN but discovered it at the WW show. I think LN will not be able to introduce their wares to woodworkers new to hand tool techniques with their shows compared to the high volume of folks that attend the WW shows.

Still, when a LN event is near me (which will likely not be happening), I will attend. You probably met a guy named Daneb Puchalski. He is a great guy. Really a good teacher.

Glad you enjoyed the show but if LN is reading this, you need to reconsider this part of your marketing. You’ll get more exposure from the Woodworking Shows than your own.

I am a huge Niesen fan. I own 2 and love them

-- making sawdust....

Bummer, wish I had known earlier, I would have attended, just checked their website and I am now making plans to attend the event in Oakland next month, a lot longer drive from my house but will get to see my daughter, so it’s all good. Occaisonally I get the chance to travel to Maine for work and come within about a 2hr drive from their factory, but have never gotten the chance to visit yet, so this will have to do for now ;o)

I also have several of their planes and other items, all are top quality that can’t be beat. However, I also own several LV planes and am just as happy with those as well. I think we are quite lucky to be able to have a choice of such quality tools to choose from nowadays.

-- "You get what you inspect, not what you expect"

Yeah, Daneb was there. He was mostly teaching people about sharpening techniques and he answered a lot of questions on maintaining a plane.. I learned quite a bit. Luckily I got to stay most of the day. There was another young furniture maker there. I forget his name but he was quite good. He was teaching someone how to make a mortise and tenon joint with hand tools. He later taught a lady how to make a jewelry box using hand tools as well.
What was funny was when I mentioned that I owned Stanley planes, they actually tried to help me by asking me how I tweaked it, my sharpening technique, etc. They reccomended that I buy a thicker blade, which they sell or I can get a Hock blade too, other than that they said I should be able to get my Stanley planes to work almost as well as their planes.