: I'll second Bill on the 12-101. I use it most of the time except when I
: absolutely need something with a longer sole.

: Glen in Baie-St-Paul.

Mine is not exactly the same, but is similar in size & style.

To quote myself from a concluding blog post after finishing my guillemot last year:

Best Cheap Tool: A tie - the paint scraper and a $2 stamped metal small plane bought at a garage sale. Once sharpened properly, the paint scraper worked wonderfully for removing high spots, bumps, drips, runs, edges and excess glass/epoxy. The little hand plane just fits so nicely in the palm of my hand and it works very well for trimming strips and all sorts of other things while stripping. If I had lots of money, I'd upgrade to a Veritas apron plane. The microplane rasp gets an honourable mention.

Yesterday my daughter (not quite 6) & I used that little plane to shape the shaft of her new kayak paddle. It's a size that she can manage with. It's major downfall is that it's difficult to fine tune the depth of cut and the angle of the blade.