Cheap Jack plane offer.

[skipdiver]

http://www.dm-tools.co.uk/product.php?s ... 1CANZErKUk

Good deal if anyone is looking to buy.

 

[pcb1962]

Good deal if anyone is looking to buy.

Thanks, now I just need to add another £80 worth of stuff to my order to get the free postage :lol:

 

[skipdiver]

Good deal if anyone is looking to buy.

Thanks, now I just need to add another £80 worth of stuff to my order to get the free postage :lol:

Tempted to buy one myself despite already owning two.

 

[oakmitre]

I think the SP5 does not have a moveable frog, whereas the standard Record 5 does, if that matters to anyone.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Good deal if anyone is looking to buy.

Thanks, now I just need to add another £80 worth of stuff to my order to get the free postage :lol:

Tempted to buy one myself despite already owning two.

If you already own two, you probably should know why you don't need that one. Another one, maybe , but not that one.

 

[bugbear]

I think the SP5 does not have a moveable frog, whereas the standard Record 5 does, if that matters to anyone.

It might be worth the £20 offer price, but it ain't worth the (claimed) £64 "before" price.

BugBear

 

[Vann]

Made to "...manufactured to uncompromisingly high standards...". So high in fact, that the workers on the shop floor can't reach them to see what is specified. Modern Record Irwin planes don't have a good reputation.

Cheers, Vann.

 

[skipdiver]

I know they are not the best and i won't be buying one myself, but for someone just starting out, they are decent for £20. I have two old school Record ones.

 

[John15]

I know they are not the best and i won't be buying one myself, but for someone just starting out, they are decent for £20. I have two old school Record ones.

I would have thought someone just setting out would be better advised to get a second-hand, made in England one off Ebay.

John

 

[ED65]

skipdiver, your old-school ones are almost certainly significantly better made than this. Not that the above plane couldn't be tuned to work I'm sure, many cheap modern planes can actually be tweaked to work just fine (often with much less fettling than supposed). And for my money the lack of a moveable frog is of no consequence, any more than I require an adjustable mouth in a woodie.

But given the abundance of secondhand planes in the UK in reasonable nick, for significantly less than this, I think that's where a newbie lucky enough to live in Blighty should be looking. Just in the last month I've seen perhaps a dozen great deals on planes on Gumtree, and at car boots of course individual planes are usually pocket change.

 

[Bod]

Might be worth buying just for the blade & cap iron.

Bod

 

[skipdiver]

skipdiver, your old-school ones are almost certainly significantly better made than this. Not that the above plane couldn't be tuned to work I'm sure, many cheap modern planes can actually be tweaked to work just fine (often with much less fettling than supposed). And for my money the lack of a moveable frog is of no consequence, any more than I require an adjustable mouth in a woodie.

But given the abundance of secondhand planes in the UK in reasonable nick, for significantly less than this, I think that's where a newbie lucky enough to live in Blighty should be looking. Just in the last month I've seen perhaps a dozen great deals on planes on Gumtree, and at car boots of course individual planes are usually pocket change.

Yeah, fair comment. I got an email from D&M with the latest offers and it looked an ok deal to me. I haven't bought a plane for about 40 years, so i guess the quality has dropped considerably in that time. Most of my planes were inherited and are older than me in some cases.

 

[ED65]

Might be worth buying just for the blade & cap iron.

Cheaper to get them in a Silverline or B&Q plane I think, and they might be of exactly the same quality.

If buying a Silverline it would additionally provide free rosewood-ish handles

 

[Vann]

I know they are not the best and i won't be buying one myself, but for someone just starting out, they are decent for £20. I have two old school Record ones.

I would have thought someone just setting out would be better advised to get a second-hand, made in England one off Ebay.

John

When I started my apprenticeship in 1973 I bought a brand new Stanley No.4.

Stanley's quality control was already on it's way out the window, and I must have bought a $hi**er - it wouldn't work out of the box, and no-one showed me how to fettle it (I didn't even realise it might need work).

For 35 years I thought I couldn't hand plane - until I bought a Veritas LAJ about 2008. What a revelation !!

I wouldn't recommend a new (non-premium) plane to any newbie, unless they have someone to show them how to fettle it and set it up.

Cheers, Vann.

 

[ED65]

I wouldn't recommend a new (non-premium) plane to any newbie, unless they have someone to show them how to fettle it and set it up.

I see what you're saying and I agree in principle but luckily we has da Innernets now 8)