Testing Cheapest Hand Plane on Amazon - Stanley No. 4 Clone 

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If you can hold a sharp blade over a flat surface you have a plane.

Hey Wranglerstar have you heard of JK boots before as a fire boot, supposed to be similar to Nick's and Whites? I started getting adds from them and they've got some weird marketing especially on their $950 "the north" boots, they're supposed to be a full custom version of their normal boots with full expedited services, 1 "free" resole, and a can of obenauf's but I crunched the numbers and for a basic fire boot it comes up to $100 less than the North's to just do a custom build. Might be a cool video to do if they are making boots as good or better than Nick's or a really helpful video if they're ripping off guys in the wildland fire and timber industry with their advertising.

Mine arrived today. Xmas gift to myself.

Here is a followup video. HF has a #4 hand plane WITH a smaller one for 14.99...before coupon. Give it a review

As much as we all love Amazon (I live way out in the boonies, 2-day shipping), they've been using their 3rd party seller data to build their own products, and take over product segments for years. It only recently came out in the news. So, if you're selling on AMZN, watch out, and good luck!

@@cypsrp7924isn’t this what Walmart does too? You make a widget, they sell more than you can produce, they buy it from you and take over production, ending your business… yah?

Your right, there are quiet a few originals out there, and they are cheap when you find them.

Well keep it it being an original they will be rare someday

@@aideningram434 I doubt the kids will be into woodworking still. I had woodwork as a school subject from grade 6 to grade 12, so at least I know my way around tools. We live next to the same school and my daughter attends.. they don't even offer it as a subject anymore

Mostly weed oh well it’s sad that it’s like that at least we grew up right have a good day brother

@@aideningram434 they offered a shop class at my high school (class of '03) but I was even more stubborn and hard headed back then so I dropped out in 10th grade. I never one time took a single shop class. In fact I never had any interest in woodworking or anything growing up. It wasn't until I came back from the Bahamas after falling out with my brother that I asked a friend of mine who have been doing construction on remodels for 4 or 5 years to give me a job because I didn't have any means to make money that I started learning a skilled trade. Even then I didn't really have any interest into actual wood working. It wasn't until about 2 years ago that I really started learning to appreciate high levels of craftsmanship and details into building things with wood. In fact I finally managed to talk my mother into giving me my father's old vintage #5 Stanley Jack plane. And within the last year I have decided to try my hand and building custom-made wooden furniture and start a business with it. Now granted I haven't built a piece of furniture for anyone in quite some time it hasn't changed my insane love for working with wood and trying to get my name and business out there. In fact if anything it's actually push me into getting my craftsmanship level even higher so that it would be almost impossible to not take notice of the things that I build. Just because I shot classes offered or not offered or mandatory or not mandatory does it really mean all that much. Now what I have benefited from taking that class probably depending on how good the teacher was but given how I was back then I probably wouldn't have paid too much attention anyways. I just happen to get lucky with the DNA Lotto and happened to be born with a very high intellect but it wasn't until about the age of 25 or so that I really really started to appreciate learning even if it's self education. I can see what you mean though when you say praise the right I think that they should offer extra regular courses like that and they should be mandatory throughout high School only if to help teach a kid more about themselves as far as what they enjoy doing or what they possibly have interest in doing or even what they might have untapped talent into doing that they were not aware of. I am the last male Ingram of my family my daughter makes the very last Ingram in my lineage unless something else or to change and I am trying hard to get my daughter into a skilled trade early on but I actually have been trying to expose her to just about everything I can because I want her to do something she enjoys not something that could be expected I'm not one of those heirloom business type folks just because I did something in my grandfather did something etc doesn't mean that I'm going to force it on my child ever. Just like my grandfather taught me a long time ago do something that you love everyday you'll never work today in your life.

the people who inherited them are most likely pencilpushers

I finally talked my mom into giving me my father's #5 Stanley Jack Plane last year. It is sat in her utility room my entire life. Hell even when I told him about it he was shocked that it was even still around. He was not a carpenter but I guess seeing is how they built a few of their own houses forever ago it makes sense that he had one. I had never used one before but after getting it and trying to fix it up and learning about it it's one of the reasons why my company name is what it is. Planes, Stains and Polyurethanes is what I decided on naming my start up. Eventually should it become successful enough I'll split it up and do painting as a separate business. Living in the bible belt in south ga I've come up with the name holy rollers and brushes commercial and residential painting for when that day comes. Both of them seem like very catchy names for companies. I can thank John Candy and Steve Martin from custom furniture business' name though.

Cody isn’t always a hundred percent on things like that.

It really depends on the person doing the repair refurbish or restoration. I've watched several different people that are very respected and well known in the woodworking or RU-vid areas. I've watched Paul Sellers a master craftsman and woodworker, Cody here on RU-vid and a few others. Some of them make sure that they either pull the blade back far enough in too the plane or remove the blade but keep the frog securely attached to the bottom of the plane, and then other craftsman restoring or refurbishing a plane completely remove the blade and frog then begin flattening the plane. So it definitely depends on the person and craftsman refurbishing the plane and possibly how much flattening is needed.

By the time you buy a quality blade from Hock or IBC (about 40 bucks) and pay 30 bucks for this boat anchor then you are out 70 bucks. For that price you can buy one or two vintage Stanley, Sargent, Millers Falls, or Record planes that will perform a hell of a lot better than this junk. This isn't a budget plane, its a complete time waster.

@@thathandtoolguy not everyone has access to good quality dirt cheap tools

One year later and I'm happy to say that my plane is shaving fibres like the big boys.

I'm trying to hold out to find me a few vintage planes that are affordable if I can. I see a few pop up on Craigslist that aren't absurdly priced occasionally. Just have to be able to react immediately when I do 😄

Thank you for noticing, great lighting doesn't happen by accident, you know.

@@wranglerstar it would be nice to see a dyi on hair pieces for us folicly challenged viewers

Anthony Sozio and until we all come groveling at their feet begging for our sustenance

@@yeboscrebo4451 foot sustenance?!

You realize you have the option to not buy amazon products, right? It's not as deep as you're making it...

He’s mine 😀

Nice find.

Then the average joe shouldn't be doing wood working. These are the steps that you have to take on any new plane to one degree or another. Though I would buy a new plane iron and chip breaker, for this plane before doing anything else with it. Probably a hock or lie nielson

I agree with rob. I would have liked to see what it did right out of the box before sharing just to see how bad it was. But good video anyhow like always

@@Deactivated1122 good for you, your that 1 out of 100,000 with a very special circumstance. I'm glad you were able to fix your problem and secure your family. Everyone else needs to tune up their plane before working with it. It's not that complicated or difficult and it makes a crappy tool into a useable tool. You can get granite countertop cutouts from manufacturers for free and good sanding paper is pretty cheap. Unless you are paying 350+ for a number 4, you definitely need to check the flat of your sole and the bevel/sharpness of your blade.

@@Deactivated1122 lol. Caulk and wood putty make me the carpenter I brag to be 🤣

I actually got one not long after they put it on the site as a learner. I tried it out without any flattening and some sharpening and, at least the one I got, did pretty well despite me being an absolute learner. After, I borrowed the blade out of a friend's actual Stanley no. 4 and I got it to do some whispy, if a bit ragged tufts of wood out of a random piece of softwood (some kind of redwood?). I think the first to do, when I'm able to and after flattening the bottom, is replace the blade with something else, like those Hock blades. All in all, I think it's alright, though when I took the frog off, one of the contact spots of the base (it had like 4 little rear subs for the frog to connect to) was still covered in japanning as opposed to seemingly machined flat. And the face of the frog had reeeally obvious marks from the milling. Like mountain range kind of rough. Also learned that I really prefer levercaps I stead of the screwcap. A week later, I found a corrugated sole smoother at an estate sale (3 bucks!) that cleaned up nicely after a day in rust remover and scrubbing with a detail brush. After like a month and a half of searching. Old vintage planes are seemingly rare where I am unless you want to pay highway robbery for one in an antique store.

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Well thats sone useful information right there. Thanks man

hes done a whole series of videos making the bench, the shelves and the entire workshop renovation

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