And here I thought I was a heretic for keeping my planes upright. Although as soon as I have finished using them I retract the iron. My favorite planes are my 1850's Sorby high angle toothed blade veneer plane. It thicknesses quickly on hardwood and is essentially immune to tearout. You can plane in any direction on any wood. Bit of a miracle to use the first time. My Sargent 306 block plane has an adjustable mouth and is what I use for almost all smoothing. If I hand-joint thin wood (which I do very rarely) I will usually put a finely set up Stanley No. 7 upside down in a vise and push the wood over it rather than moving the plane.
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Brian Evans
Around 15 archtops, electrics, resonators, a lap steel, a uke, a mandolin, some I made, some I bought, some kinda showed up and wouldn't leave. Tatamagouche Nova Scotia.
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