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Until I started down this rabbit hole I didn't appreciate how many different types of plane there were. Block planes are for endgrain I understand, where the lower angle cuts the fibres better. I've certainly used a no4 plane on endgrain and it's been a pig. I usually end up with the bottom of a door that is slightly convex due to the middle being easier to work.

Curses! Have I bought the wrong sort?

Er, no. I managed to post the wrong link. It's a block plane that I think from other pictures on the net is a 60 1/2. The link is now correct for the one I bought 😉 They will be on the bench when I get them and have time to Christinise them. Be prepared for a series of what do I do next PMs 😉

Right, the no.5 is mine! And this one https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Stanley-Block-Plane/184211082164?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649

Any of you f#kers buy this and I'll hunt you down and use it to shave your face off! Looks a decent one to me. Old and tatty https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Record-No-5-Woodwork-Plane-Made-in-England/184181780724?hash=item2ae216f0f4:g:h~AAAOSwJJxeUVIU

Yep, I've read it. I think it will make more sense to me when I've got a plane in my hand. A wet grinder is first on the list, Amazon are doing a Scheppach for 105€ at the moment. All the planes on eBay are a) expensive and b) all in the UK which does bump the post price up unfortunately.

Twerp

I had a look in our local DIY shed. https://toom.de/p/metallhobel-44-mm/1810050 It's literally a BBOT. Shocking bit of kit. eBay I suspect for something decent.

Awright you 'orrible lot. I need (really? Want is more accurate) a plane or two. I don't need a huge long jointing plane so I'm thinking something like a do most things reasonably plane and a block plane. In my head, and from the interwebz, I'm looking for a Stanley no. 5 and a Stanley 60 1/2 or equivalent. Yay or nay? What would you talented and experienced people suggest?

Sorry if I've missed the explanation, but why does it have another front panel? Is it just a different way of hanging the grill cloth?

At the moment I have a complete block over a 12 bar in A shuffle. For one reason or another I cannot count the block of 6 between the two Ds. Make it a run of notes and I have no problems, but a single note for 6 bars is too complicated for me.

I've just bought an AA battery charger and some batteries for use in my Line6 wireless sender. Does that count as a purchase?

Something like a Barchan sand dune...

Wot Spondz sed 👍

Oh god yes, the price would be horrendous. I may see what I can get off the Bay of Fleas. An Epiphone body and LH Jazz V Neck. Even that will be a bit frisky on price I fear. Anyway, enough derailing, back to the cellar with you Mr. Jr1515 😉

@Andyjr1515 @Daz39 Thank you for that very helpful explanation. Someone needs to make me a jazz neck sized reverse headstock multiscale Fenderbird. (I saw The Darkness a fortnight ago and want a Thunderbird but they AFAIK don't come as a V, and the Gibson headstock is hideous.)

I'm going to seem foolish now (more so than normal), and ask what the point of multiscale is. I've read the Wiki page, and you said "The whole point of multi-scale is to balance the tone of each string." But I'm still non the wiser. Sorry. It makes the fretboard look pretty though.

It's kind of a throwback hipster style I suppose. Old fashioned wood and branding effect but modern. Throwback chic? 🤔

What are we naming, the P-Bass shaped thing above or the Barncaster guitars? Precision Barn? Rustibass?

Rickenbacker?

Dunk the whole thing in resin. It seems to be fashionable. On YouTube at least. 😉

Psychopathy is just another Basschat hobby.

Therapy? at Grünspan next month.

Grainne Hunt. Irish folk singer/songwriter who did a living room concert for my sister in law's birthday this evening.

You're never going to lose that on a dark stage! It's looking very nice, I like the little things such as the recesses for the machine heads.