I have been jealously looking through the hand tools section of this forum for a while and drooling over the old plane finds (we don’t seem to have those kinds of things at garage sales out here). One of the things I have been looking for for a long while is a Stanley No. 62 in good condition.
I was very happy to see that Lie Nielsen is making a reproduction of these and I ordered one hoping it would be as good as the Stanley I remember using. Color me impressed. It is every bit as good! The build quality, finish, and iron are all arguably even better.
I needed to glue up some red oak tonight for a project and figured I would use it to prep the final surface.
Red oak is notorious for tear outs so i figured it would be a good test. The floor is now covered in wispy little shavings, the block is glued and in the clamps and I am a happy kid.