I bought these two specialty planes 4 or 5 years ago at a Lie Nielsen tool event. In that time, I've had used them twice. Given Lie Nielsen had stopped production, they had risen to about $600 for the pair on the used market. I was tempted to sell them as I rarely used them. However, I thought they might come in handy at some point because I do make a fair bit of housing dados by hand. As such, I kept them. Well, Becksvoort's 15 drawer chest is the project where they have come in really handy. I have total of 30 housing dados I need to make for this project - long ones about 12" each.
Each piece needs to be fitted into these housing dados. They were all too tight after cutting the dado so I had to either trim the dado or slightly chamfer the end of the board going into the housing dado. Normally, I just put the slight chamfer on the piece. For this project, after doing what I normally do, I broke out the LN 98 and 99. It worked well and I felt I had more control on sneaking up to a tight fit vs. the other method I typically use. I will be using these planes more. Still a specialty tool but handy when needed.
The only challenge is that if the brass shoe makes contact with the wood surface, it mars it. That's why I didn't use them initially. If I raise the shoe up, I can get a mar free surface which is important on a cabinet where the inside face can be seen. On this piece, the inside will never really be seen as there are drawers. As such, I've mostly left the shoe down. All good problems. Hopefully this weekend or next I will have all the dados done so I can move onto the dovetails for the top. We shall see. Trying to do more than just woodwork all the time. Won't stress either way on the progress if it is slow. This is a hobby and it is supposed to be enjoyable.
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