Reddit reviews Stanley 12-140 No.92 Shoulder and Chisel Plane
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Thicker 3/4 inch wide blade made of A2 steel for increased edge retention and reduces chatterPrecision machined base for accuracyDual purpose shoulder and chisel planeIron casting for weight and durabilityFinger grips for comfort
I can offer some guidance here. I just purchased a Medium Veritas shoulder plane and it is as great as you'd expect. Everything is flat and square as I have come to expect from LV. It also has a good feeling of heft to it as well.
If you don't want to dump $200 on one from LV, you should put serious consideration on this one from Stanley. It's listed as $63, but Amazon has a $10 off Stanley tools until the end of the year. Unlike their other planes on the market, it's actually pretty good. It even comes with a recommendation from /u/joelav which is very hard to come by. The back of the iron needs some flattening, but I've not heard a single bad thing come out of Joe's mouth about it.
Definitely feel free to come back and ask any follow-up questions, but don't be intimidated by all of the tools they show in that link. The hardest part is to get those mitered edges to line up, but if you have a miter saw, with a little practice, it shouldn't be a problem.
They show a router table there to cut the rabbets but you can do the same with a table saw. Just be careful and take all of the appropriate safety precautions. If you'd prefer not to get a new piece of equipment, you could buy a hand plane and manually do the rabbets as well.
Don't get discouraged if your practice pieces aren't going well. The cheapest boards at a hardware store are typically softwoods (pines, firs, etc.) which counter-intuitively are harder to do accurate work with.