According to my wife, I have enough planes. However, my eyes wander, and I have thought about a Stanley 62 low angle jack plane. I have a #4 smoother, a #5 jack, and a #7 that is older than my parents, and is a wonderful plane. But the only low angle planes I have are block planes.
My excuse is that I need some legs for a couple of benches in my shop. The benches are sitting on saw horses. However, my brother and a friend are cutting some of the many dead Ash trees we have, and the friend has a portable saw mill. So I thought I would try to get enough 5x5 pieces to use for legs and cross members, and then put them in the top of my garage to dry. Ash is pretty dry to begin with, and perhaps just the summer sitting in the top of my garage might dry it enough for a square-up and feed through a surface planer. If I get cracks, it is just shop furniture, not something on parlor display.
So as I was dreaming about this, the thought of a new jack plane, and specifically a low angle one came to mind. I know that there are better planes than the Stanley, but I am getting older, and none of my kids are particularly interested in doing more than hanging pictures and putting up utility shelves in their laundry area, so I have been backing off of tool acquisitions. With a modest collection of 8 routers, I can't find any one of four kids who would like one of them.
So stories aside, has anyone used this plane, or even own one who can comment on the good and bad points of it, and what they like to use it for?
My excuse is that I need some legs for a couple of benches in my shop. The benches are sitting on saw horses. However, my brother and a friend are cutting some of the many dead Ash trees we have, and the friend has a portable saw mill. So I thought I would try to get enough 5x5 pieces to use for legs and cross members, and then put them in the top of my garage to dry. Ash is pretty dry to begin with, and perhaps just the summer sitting in the top of my garage might dry it enough for a square-up and feed through a surface planer. If I get cracks, it is just shop furniture, not something on parlor display.
So as I was dreaming about this, the thought of a new jack plane, and specifically a low angle one came to mind. I know that there are better planes than the Stanley, but I am getting older, and none of my kids are particularly interested in doing more than hanging pictures and putting up utility shelves in their laundry area, so I have been backing off of tool acquisitions. With a modest collection of 8 routers, I can't find any one of four kids who would like one of them.
So stories aside, has anyone used this plane, or even own one who can comment on the good and bad points of it, and what they like to use it for?