I am looking at expanding my meager collection of planes...
currently have
rapier 4
stanley 4 1/2 (corrogated bottom)
and just been given 2 falcon pope 9" ( I think) which need to be cleaned up (I am in the middle of cleaning one and will post soon).
plus a couple of little bench planes and a small stanley corner plane(not sure what it is called)

I am looking at getting some bigger planes... and was thinking a 6 and/or 7. (for leveling tabletops, jointing and shuting)
Unfortunately I can't afford the exxy planes, so I was looking at a couple of falcon/pope planes...

is there anything I should be looking at with the 6/7? or falcon/popes?


also I was also wanting a low angle plane, but these seem to be quite expensive, so I thought of maybe making a timber one myself. Are there any issues with building a low angle plane out of timber? would the blade be pushed out because of the low angle at all???


thoughts??

Thanks

Greg.