Four Must-Have Hand Planes For Your Shop – WOOD magazine
Four Must-Have Hand Planes For Your Shop – WOOD magazine
Hand planes remove excess material and shape wood without creating a great deal of noise or dust. There are hundreds if not thousands of different plane type bodies and they all serve a purpose. WOOD magazine’s David Thiel discusses four types of hand planes you should have in your shop: Block Plane, Jack Plane, Shoulder Plane and Jointer Plane.
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Thanks for posting…good info.
9:45 A jack plane is a No. 5, not a No. 4, which is what you’re using. Also, the tote is the rear handle. The front is called a knob.
Thanks for the video… According to Paul Sellers, if you can only have one bench plane, make it a #4…
Great Information , Thanks 🙏
Thanks for the knowledge about the Hand Planes you should have in your Shop.
stop saying ok
Very nice vid. Well organized and presented. Thanks.
How do you like the benchdog handplanes? I have a 4 that I got recently but I don’t have anything to compare it with.
great informative video , learned a few things from it , thanks a lot
What lumber yard/store would allow you to start planing away boards?
O , love hand planes my favorite tools 😊 .
That’s not a jack plane, it’s a No4 smoothing plane, a jack plane is a No5 or a No5. 1/2 , a No 4 is a smoothing plane and a No 4 .1/2 .
Thanks for info great job and God bless
A well set up and tuned No 5 can do most things, and that is perhaps why there are more No 5’s in the world than any other. It can also be used as a scrub plane by simply switching out the iron. I have many times wondered why 50 odd years ago at high school where the woodwork room had a cupboard full of No 5’s rather than any thing else as I thought at the time that they were a little cumbersome for 12 and 13 year olds to handle and master. It was only a few years ago that the penny dropped – those No 5’s were JACK Planes, good for almost any purpose. Finally, why have one plane when you can have 4, in fact why have 4 when you can have 17 like I do….. a No 3, 2 No 4’s, a No 4 1/2, 2 No 5’s, a No 6, a No 7, a No 10 Carriage plane, a No 71, 2 No 78’s, 2 Block planes, a Plough plane, a Shoulder plane and a No 80 Scraper. Most have been bought used from carboot sales. NO, I am not a collector, these have all been bought to be used and not to sit in a glass display case. Dare I say that this is about the best fun you can have with your pants on!! Anyway, great video, thanks for the time and effort to make and share it.
thank you, i only have a number 5, but looking forward to get a shoulder and a jointer plane. i find myself using the hand plane a lot, instead of turning on the noisy electric jointer.
Keeps calling a No.4 (Smoothing plane) a jack plane…. Good work Wood Mag!
Perfeita suas ferramentas, muito bem cuidadas, parabéns. Boa tarde.
What you call a jack plane is a #4 smoothing plane. The frog is adjustable to control the throat.
Wait, 4 must have planes, or way too much basic detail of 4 planes you ought to have?