: I can't tell you how little I fetishize my tools.

Spoken like a true woodworker!

You do realize I was kidding, right?

: Do you have a
: tool to suggest that would have done this task better? I needed
: a tool with a good edge, that would cut right up flush against
: the form while creating a flat, horizontal surface. Are you
: suggesting I should waste my time with a lesser tool just
: because Mr. Nielsen didn't know this is what his tool would be
: used for? I would have been happy to use something else, but the
: rabbet plane did a very good job at a task that really needed to
: be done.

I can't think of a tool that would do a better job, especially since the A2 blade is the hardest thing you can get next to carbide. I have a couple of old Stanley #78 rabbet planes that I refurbished that I would probably use, but the blades aren't likely to hold an edge for long when trimming glass.

: It gets dull eventually, but it holds up better than a lesser
: quality tool would. I'll sharpen it when it needs to be
: sharpened to do whatever task I have at hand. They aren't
: exactly cheap, so it's not like I can devote one to cutting
: fiberglass and another to cutting rabbets (which I never do
: anyway).

Yeah, I cut a rabbet or two in test pieces, just to see how the planes worked. That's been pretty much it, except for using them to clean up grooves in the legs of a workbench I built.