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Faithfull FAIPLANE5 No.5 Jack Plane in Wooden Box

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So manufacturers have dumbed down the skill required to accommodate the lowest common denominator (the user). The only thing that makes this product inferior to the high-end planes is the frog adjustment is a bit fidgity (three screws and still somewhat sloppy. Still, it's far better than the standard Record design. And I'm not going to adjust the frog more than a few times. It's perfectly acceptable.

In comparison to my Lie-Nielsen planes, they pale quite a bit to me. I feel the L/N tools are truely "heirloom quality" as they will far outlast me even with continuous hard use... Is there any other physical difference that makes a No.4 more useful for smoothing, other than it's smaller size and weight making it easier to handle? This article is very interesting, in particular the point on tapered irons. I have one such iron on my wooden jointer; it is the best iron I have!Most current and past hand-plane makers seem to follow the numbering system (and design details) popularized by Stanley (and invented by Leonard Bailey?). It takes less effort time and skill to run a piece of timber over a jointer than to learn how to plane a piece of timber correctly. My thinner, standard-fit cutting irons do not chatter and they never have chattered for any of the above reasons. Chatter is a very unique and isolated occurrence in planing with a plane on so rare an occasion, it might happen only once in five years. So, where is the confusion? Chatter is very difficult to produce, sometimes difficult to evaluate and is so fine it barely takes more than two rubs with fine abrasive paper to remove it. In my own life of woodworking daily for 56 years I have witnessed chatter only a half dozen times under my own plane and from beneath the planes of the 6,500 students I have trained over the past three decades. Doesn’t that tell you something? Look, you are having struggles planing. The questions you might not be asking of your bench plane are:

For more information on advanced sharpening we recommend David Charlesworth’s video Plane Sharpening, available in both DVD Materials and workmanship are guaranteed for the life of your tool. Call for repairs or replacement parts. We are available for advice if you ever have a problem using your tool. Proposition 65 Notice: Reading between the lines is critical thinking and if chatter was never ever mentioned for centuries, how come we suddenly have this exceptional and very specific phenomenon affecting everyone who uses a plane? What people say is “chatter”, most often if not always, is usually just skudding, skipping and jumping, nothing more!Is the plane presented in such a way that it engages the grain with the ability for you to apply even pushing power? The wooden wedge. It should be just perfect. It is fixing the iron all over the plane surface against another plane surface and if it is not really plane wedge (nice one 🙂 ) it will not homogeneously press on the iron. Or left side will be loose, or right one. Or nose of the iron, or tale.. If it is wedge with a rod/strange holder that wedge push against, you always have a big lever between real fixing point and cutting edge. Planed wood will “press and release on the iron”, it will bend (the big lever allows it) and jump, and if it is in resonance with the lever size and force applied, one will have a chatter. Chatter actually IS a resonance oscillation of the iron. Well, I humbly responded, “What’s the difference between a standard Stanley and Record plane iron and the vintage wooden version?” How many many magnificent ornate buildings around the world have their woodworking done with overly expensive Varitas or Lie Nielson planes?

Iron tools are cast from Ductile Iron, a very strong alloy that will take a lot of abuse. These castings are fully stress relieved, a process that removes inherent stresses and ensures that the tool will remain flat and true. I did my Cabinet Making trade in 1978, but left soon after and did a totally unrelated trade which I have now been teaching for over 20 years.The plane iron may also be ground slight differently in shape (as opposed to angle)... but yes, those are the largest differences. They do affect how the plane is used. The WoodRiver plane's engineering and construction are FAR better. Good paint job, well machined parts, great case (wooden box). Have you developed the confidence to land the plane to the wood at a level parallel to the surface?

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