How Necessary is a Specialised Scrub Plane?

[Adam W.]

What post above it? All I see is a string of posts from You.
Oh hang on it must be DW. He is on my ignore list, the only person in fact.

Oh!

That must look like I'm shouting at the wind, that's not a good look is it ?

 

[paulrbarnard]

Oh!

That must look like I'm shouting at the wind, that's not a good look is it ?

It did make it look like you were raving

 

[D_W]

I can't help but laugh, do you not have any idea of which trees grow where ?

You do realize that I mentioned that on purpose, right? If you're riving your wood, you may not be particularly familiar with what's on the specialty market. I don't buy much local wood because the stock itself isn't good enough from the start for planes or musical instruments. I don't care for the look of euro beech vs. american, but there's certainly nothing wrong with it (the oft repeated comments about american beech being softer or less dense aren't accurate for the billets I showed - they make a heavier plane than those that I've imported from England).

 

[D_W]

It did make it look like you were raving

He sure wasn't posting pictures of his work or giving anything other than evasive answers. I see a lot of posturing, but asking for someone to answer questions accurately because it may be helpful to anyone following (not just me) is a bridge too far.

I don't critique other peoples' work unless someone goes off like Jacob does calling other poeples' work plain or simple or something derogatory and had to follow back through Adam's history to see anything that he's done. None of the riven wood is remotely close to the quality of the sawn wood that I showed, but it's not essential, that's not the question and everything doesn't have to be done with top 1% wood. I'd have tapped at immediately with honest comments answering a genuine question out of curiosity.