> I know I can buy all the stuff I need to make the perfect stake at a fraction of the cost of going out once. Now here’s someone who isn’t familiar with the L

> I know I can buy all the stuff I need to make the perfect stake at a fraction of the cost of going out once. Now here’s someone who isn’t familiar with the Lee Valley catalog. I assure you, you can spend many hundreds on the stuff to make the perfect stake. Their exquisite, custom hand planes and sleds are works of functional art, worthy of use with the finest exotic wood, itself with costs that approach the surreal. Which is, of course, why going out and buying a great stake can cost so much, too.