Thanks everyone. My birthday is on Valentine's Day so I tell everyone "I was a love child." Alfredo, you always remember - don't know how you do it - but thanks.
My wife got me an LN Boggs flat bottom spokeshave to use on a Windsor chair I'm making. I have a bunch of spokeshaves - wooden ones and older Stanley spokeshaves - but the LN is in a class by itself. The two things that make it good, in my opinion, are the thick blade which eliminates (or greatly reduces) chatter, and the very tight mouth. You can't hog off wood with it but for the final smoothing, it really works great.
Of course, she had some help in picking it out.
Mike