Melbourne Tool Company’s low-angle block plane is well cast, finished, and machined.
If I had to select my favorite woodworking tool, it would have to be the low-angle block plane. Indeed, I used to throw one, along with a pocket bevel gauge and a folding boxwood rule, into my backpack as a bit of travel insurance that allowed me to make some needed cash in far-flung locations such as western Ireland and Tampico, Mexico.