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Alan,

MIK have the Veritas LA block plane at $199.
Lie-Nielsen's Australian website has the LN LA brass block plane for $149 and the iron model for $119. Prices are in Aussie Pesos.

Ive got a Veritas LA blockie that gets alot of use in my shop.

Cheers Martin

[QUOTE=ToddStock]A toothing blade is not a bad investment - both LN and LV have them for several planes of interest to builders.
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Todd, could you please explain the different purposes of a toothed blade and a standard blade?

Cheers

Alan

Hesh, where did you get those wood chips in your picture with your planes? I know they weren't just lying around your shop

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[QUOTE=ToddStock]A toothing blade is not a bad investment - both LN and LV have them for several planes of interest to builders. [/QUOTE]

Todd, could you please explain the different purposes of a toothed blade and a standard blade?

Cheers

Alan

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A toothed blade often works better on woods where youre getting tear-out with a regular blade. The toothed blade is also useful as you can more easily see where youve planed as it will have a striated appearance from the toothed blade. The latter is especially obvious if you work the plane diagonally and with the grain in alternating directions with each pass. See Campiano's book for instructions on using a toothed bladed plane to work a top this way.

another vote for the LN 102 in bronze.

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Question: anyone have a reccomendation for an online store that sells Lie-Nielsen, and may be willing to ship internationally? Local price for the 102 is fine, pretty much, but the differences get a bit silly if you want any of the pricier planes, and with the dollar where it currently resides...

[QUOTE=Mattia Valente]Question: anyone have a reccomendation for an online store that sells Lie-Nielsen, and may be willing to ship internationally? Local price for the 102 is fine, pretty much, but the differences get a bit silly if you want any of the pricier planes, and with the dollar where it currently resides...[/QUOTE]

Mattia - you might try buying direct from LN.  http://www.lie-nielsen.com/catalog.php?cat=504

BTW - I'm a big fan of the LN bronze 102.  It's by far my most used plane. 

Lie-Nielsen's website directs me to local suppliers if I click on the 'International Customers' bit; I doubt they'll want to mess with their distributors' business.

If you can wait 'till a "Woodworker's Show" comes to a city near you, you can compare & look & touch some of the best tools available anywhere to your heart's content.
The presenters offer some pretty good deals at the shows too! Try waiting 'till the last day of the show... The demo tools often get sold off at great discounts.
Just don't take all of your credit cards!

One of the small LN block planes, if I remember right,(maybe the 102, but not for sure) has curved sides so maybe not what you want if you plan to use it on a shooting board. The larger LN adjustable mouth block plane is square, flat sides.

Somebody please correct me on this if my memory is wrong.

[QUOTE=Marc] One of the small LN block planes, if I remember
right,(maybe the 102, but not for sure) has curved sides so maybe not what
you want if you plan to use it on a shooting board. The larger LN adjustable
mouth block plane is square, flat sides.

Somebody please correct me on this if my memory is wrong.[/QUOTE]

I have both and you are correct. Although such a short plane wouldn't be
great for jointing anyway, but you are correct.

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[QUOTE=John Mayes] [QUOTE=Marc] One of the small LN block planes, if I remember
right,(maybe the 102, but not for sure) has curved sides so maybe not what
you want if you plan to use it on a shooting board. The larger LN adjustable
mouth block plane is square, flat sides.

Somebody please correct me on this if my memory is wrong.[/QUOTE]

I have both and you are correct. Although such a short plane wouldn't be
great for jointing anyway, but you are correct.[/QUOTE]

You're right John, it's too small for shooting tops and backs. But a small block plane with a shooting board can be sometimes useful for squaring the end of a narrow piece of wood, trimming end grain, short tapers, miters...small stuff

I had only used the LN Bronze 102 owned by the school (Red Rocks Community College, Luthiery Dept.) before and have not ever used a finer plane, as I said before. But...after posting that previous endorsement, I had to go to woodcraft and pick one up for my very own. A hundred bucks later, I'm that much closer to making my very small fortune even smaller and happy as can be.
I can't wait to make lots of very small shavings with my new 102.
DANG TAS.
-j.

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