I recently picked up a newly manufactured #4 hand plane with the idea of tuning it and using for a scrub plane and was surprised at how well it worked as a smoothing plane after some initial tuning - every bit as good as the vintage Stanley planes I’ve restored.
Plan would be to buy another - have a tuning/initializing class, engrave the plane with “DMS” and leave it in the annex for general use.
Anyone interested? Would probably repeat the class with a set of chisels for general use as well.