Weapon of choice

[Racers]

Hi Chaps

This my weapon of choice a old Record No 5 1/2 with a welded side and a Hock blade and chip breaker.


It works very well after a lot of fettling, I made the handle and tote from some stripy Teak.

What's your go to plane?

Pete

 

[Corneel]

This one is definitely one of my favorits. It's a newer Nooitgedagt which had a thin blade of questionable quality. The edge tended to curl up even on soft woods. It also had a gaping mouth, a horrible laquer finish and rather square shape. Luckily I still had a prewar Nooitgedagt blade, laminated and much thicker. I had to do a lot of fitting, removed the laquer and shaped the backside into a coffin shape. It's now near perfect. The blade has very hard steel, almost indistructable. I use it for almost anything, all kinds of smaller jobs, carpentry stuff, but it is also a pretty good smoother.

 

[Peter Sefton]

Clifton 5 1/2 heavy Jack

 

[tim burr]

Stanley 5 1/2 with a quangsheng blade and clifton chip breaker. Or the Rider low angle block plane I bought the other week.

 

[Cottonwood]

This one is definitely one of my favorits. It's a newer Nooitgedagt which had a thin blade of questionable quality. The edge tended to curl up even on soft woods. It also had a gaping mouth, a horrible laquer finish and rather square shape. Luckily I still had a prewar Nooitgedagt blade, laminated and much thicker. I had to do a lot of fitting, removed the laquer and shaped the backside into a coffin shape. It's now near perfect. The blade has very hard steel, almost indistructable. I use it for almost anything, all kinds of smaller jobs, carpentry stuff, but it is also a pretty good smoother.

I got one of those, off ebay about 7 years ago, it came with a thick iron, which does take and keep a good edge. I have it working really really well now. It is a delight to use it (any excuse) Another favourite is a "new old stock" razee marples jack off of ebay again, probably 40 to 50 years old. It has a closed type rear handle, thick tapered iron, again it cuts beautiful, swish, swish, it is a pleasure to work with it. I especially like how you can totally feel the lie of the wood under it, even when the board is just a few shavings out of flat you can sense it, and can feel when it is levelled after a few more passes. The wedge adlusting is second nature now, far quicker than messing about with slack adjustment wheels....

 

[richarnold]

13 1/2 inch dovetailed panel plane circa 1860 not a particularly tight mouth, not dead flat, but the first plane I pick up for general duty in the workshop, and used on a daily basis. Fitted with it's original Marples tapered' laminated iron which is superb and holds an edge for ages Lots of scratches in the sole although as a rule I try to avoid planning nails or lumps of grit!!. No backlash on the adjuster mechanism, and the lateral adjustment is very smooth.

 

[woodiedonald]

Well it'd be one of these, ones on the left for rough stuff, ones on the right for the nice jobs. Depends what im doing really, im not a "if you could only have one plane" type of person :wink:

 

[Vann]

My "go to" planes: Coarse, medium and fine.

Coarse: a 1960s Record 05 with brazed repair to left side. Medium: a "warfinish" 04ss with broken right side. And Fine: a Clifton 3 bought in 2009. They each do what I expect of them, well.

Cheers, Vann.

 

[matthewwh]

No backlash on the adjuster mechanism, and the lateral adjustment is very smooth.

All time: Cliffie 6
This week: Muji Jack