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Apologies in advance if this prompts one of those sharpening "debates", but I was wondering if there's a consensus on the honing angle for this block plane I picked up on ebay- just the standard 30 degrees? It's a bevel-up affair with the iron bedded at ~25 degrees. It has "FOREIGN" cast on...

Hi. Can anyone advise a newbie on gathering some basic hand tools? I've no real experience but I've always wanted to have a go at woodworking and I'm keen to get started on some basic bits of furniture from the projects in DK's Woodwork manual. I'm in a flat so planning to stick with hand tools...