Please - looking forward to seeing your plane pics - I've been watching Roy Underhill in the Woodwright's Shop for years on our local PBS station (not sure what the distribution may be?) - BUT, Roy uses no electricity for his tools and all of his planes are traditional, including the moulding ones - he often has trips to usually local areas where traditional woodworkers are still using the older metal and/or wooden planes.
For myself, I have several older planes (including a Stanley block) and about a half dozen newer ones made by Veritas, i.e.
Lee Valley, out of Canada (you may already know the company?) - these are wonderfully made and not cheap. There are plenty of people making these older woodworking hand tools w/ traditional and also innovative techniques - great to see the tradition carried on by these modern producers. Dave
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