At 6:06 PM -0500 6/9/99, Dorian Reeder wrote:
        [major snip]
>For someone like me, who'd never
>done anything more than read about how to use a handplane, to get one
>of these old beasties, to run it through SS, to touch it to a piece of
>hard maple, and to see a _reasonably_ thin shaving curl out of it,
>well, it's just a really incredible feeling!

        Yessssss!  That was it for me, and some version for many others
here, I think.
        Welcome to the porch.
            Tom Holloway