BloomingtonMike

At $110, the WoodRiver No 4 is not half the price of a Lie Nielsen No 4 ($300), it is closer to one third. People keep saying it is half price and I read half price in the FWW article today.

Lie Nielson took the Stanley planes, improved many ideas of them, and then charges us you for them. Many people are happy to pay them for that.

If LN was really as into the needs of WWs of the world, maybe they could have reached more of them by doing exactly what Woodcraft did. Sell two lines (offer an imported mfg line as well) - extreme quality and then almost extreme quality.

We are lucky to have options - just like BigBrett58 said!! Woodcraft took a risk by offering this to us (legally and morally IMO). They know what they are doing though I hope.

The FWW article was very favorable to the WoodRiver plane. Someone is buying them, they are out of stock on woodcraft.com.