Richard Cohn presented on Spokeshaves.
He says:
For a first spokeshave, I think either an old Stanley or Record (in good condition), with a Hock blade (now made by Lee Valley) is probably the safest way to go and are reasonably priced. Lee Valley also sells similar style spokeshaves that look good, but I have not tried them (if they come with the thicker blade, it might be a cost-effective approach. I think you only really need to get the flat-bottomed shave, unless you expect to do some pretty tight radii. I’m a bit of a tool junkie, so got both straight and curved bottoms (I couldn’t help myself).
Re the Shapton ceramic stones, I don’t remember if I stated that you can get the stones in 2 different formats. The first is where the ceramic is mounted on a sheet of glass. The ceramic is about ½” thick. The ceramic does not need to be flattened as often or as much as water stones, so the stones actually last quite a long time. The professional model is just the stone and is about an 1” thick. They are obviously quite a bit more expensive. I would get 320 or 500 for really coarse sharpening, 1,000, 4,000 and 8,000. A 10,000 or 16,000 are nice for polishing, but are quite expensive. A strop with good shaving honing compound is fine
Richard provided the following links:
https://www.lie-nielsen.com/nodes/4091/spokeshaves
https://www.heartwoodtools.com/hntgordon/large-flat-spokeshave
