Bill Kasper wrote:

> 
> 
> no, no, art, i'll be a poor bahstid in a few months, right?  remember, i 
> still don't have any stanley planes...lol.

Be a rebel! Don't buy Stanley planes! That'd get you out of the main traffic,
and into the gentle backwaters.

You'd still hae PLENTY of opportunities to buy fine and/or
rare tools:

Here's an (obviously incomplete) checklist of metallic planes,
to give you something to think about:

(old)
Sargeant
Union
Millers Falls (if Randy hadn't got 'em all)
Ohio
Record
Woden
Marples
Preston
Norris
Holland
Spiers

(new)
Clifton
Lie-Neilsen
Lee Valley (Veritas)
SJBTC
Shepard
Knight

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