You Will Never Fail, Earlier 19th Century Manuscript Recipe for Tempering Edge Tools emery and I love the plane's

and I love the plane's placement toward the top of the board with lots of air around it

I am especially partial to the King Fisher

and it would make an excellent platform/pedestal for sorts for all sorts of things

Stable now with drawing bright and crisp

You Will Never Fail, Earlier 19th Century Manuscript Recipe for Tempering Edge Tools emery and I love the plane'sA Reipt [I believe meant as receipt, widely used instead of recipe in the 19th century] to tempur [sic] edge tools. Take 5th of tallow, 1 1 2th of hard sope [sic], 1th of beeswax, 1th of horse hoof, 1th of salt first fry the horses foot [crossed out] hoof in the tallow then take out the horse hoof then boil it all together and put it in a troft [sic] large enough to temper any tool then heat the tool a chery [sic] red and stick it in and leave it be