with pictures!   This little plane will make decent shavings right out of the box.     I did a little fine tuning, just to make things a little better.    still, for just $9 out the door...

Ok, this plane is small, about the same as a stanley #2 here is a shot of it next to My #3 Defiance/stanleyThat is the #33 in front.   It does have two adjustment screws to set the depth.   I set it a bit right out of the box to get decent shavings in Oak.    The "Fine Tuning" consists of flattening the sole and sides, as they were a hair off, mainly the sides My sanding center was still set up, so that didn't take a whole lot of effort to get things flat.   Mine had a "ding" right on the front edge.    The "chip breaker" was next to feel the sander, as the casting was a might rough.  You can see a little of it in the last picture.    I smoothed out the area that rests on the blade. This is the underside, and meets the iron.    i also hit the topside right at the edge.  Next up was the blade?iron.    A little work to flatten the back, and some stone work to the edge, and things are looking GOOD!  I run this iron in the bevel Down routine.   As for the bed ( there isn't a "frog" , I might fine tune things, at a later date.      So, IF you can get past those "flashy" wood handles ( rumor-control says it is a painted on grain effect) and spend just a little effort at fine tuning,   this plane will be MORE than worth the $8-9 you may spend on it.  

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'and may the road raise up to meet ye'

  One nice feature of those twin screws, IF you want to angle the blade a bit, you can BEVEL an edge with this plane.    I'm not sure IF this iron can run "bevel up", and be used as a scraper plane.   I'll have to try that someday. though.  

   The metal MAY be from India, but this plane does work.    It IS based on a Stanley design.   

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'and may the road raise up to meet ye'

Hmmmm, I see a trip to Harbor Freight in my future.

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Ron Dudelston
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Steve

Nice find and review. The twin screws allow you to skew the blade a bit. Keep us posted on this please.

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Wayne Mahler
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