Drivel Starved Nation;

I think I am getting older than I want to admit.

Several posts back I commented that we would never introduce a plane without depth skids unless it makes no sense. And what happened? Yesterday I did just the opposite. OOPS.

For those of you who have never used depth skids, it is an incredible way to dimension stock to thickness completely by hand. And the results are MORE accurate than a thickness planer. When I made the “Fog of War” sculpture, I had to have precisely dimensioned material or the project was simply not doable. Depth skids to the rescue as you can see here. Variation between sticks was .002″ or less.  How cool is that?

Here is the final imagery of the HP-9 Dual Angle Block Plane. We hope to open the pre-order window next week.

With this little plane you can thickness plane up to 1.25″ square.

Lastly, we recently began production of a small run of the HP-8 Mini-Block Planes  for my next trip to China in a couple of weeks. If you missed out on the last run, call Consuelo, we will have about 80 available at the end of the month. BTW, these will have acetyl depth skids.

– John