What is your favorite brand of hand planes?
1. Lie-Nielsen. Their totes are just more comfortable that equivalent Veritas
2. Veritas - and some of their design innovations make them superior to their LN equivalent
3. pre-WW II Stanley
and if you can call Norris or Spiers a brand and money is no object, they would be #1 for bench planes
A Krenov-style plane from hocktools. A LN 51 is a close second
What is your favorite brand of hand planes?