The Next Generation of Planing Forms

I have been a hobbyist wood worker all my life and became interested in making fly rods. I signed up for a rod making class with Doug Hall (no relation) to get my feet wet. I decided that I wanted to take my own set of planing forms to the class and after three months of working in my spare time I completed my first set of six foot forms. Doug and I became friends and as he would have students needing to buy forms, I would make and deliver them to his class and help Doug with the students if needed. At the classes I noticed that the students...