Listen to Paul, listen and watch, this is simply awesome:

http://youtu.be/10RPOPBTwZA

yep, I do like my older jack planes.   I happen to have four of the #5 jack planes, plus a 5-1/4 sized jack.    Two have cambered edges.  The one Stanley #5 will take those same see-through shavings everytime, as will the Junior Jack. 

Now, IF paul would show how he goes from rough sawn to flat and smooth using a jack plane????

(Maybe I should try to make a video of how I do that, some day?)

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Planer? I'm the 'planer', and these are what I use...

I'd bet he does it like some old hard heads like me, and Roy hates it, cross grain with a hacked smoothing plane.

Agree about the old Stanley's, I've got 3 of Lord Stanley's myself and they work fine, the oldest one does have a much thicker blade.

 A FrankenBailey #5, a Sargent Type 4,#414c, A Great Neck Corsair  #C-5 ( The Scrub Jack) and an Ohio Tool Co. of Auburn NY. 05c are my jack planes.  

At one time, I did have a Union #5A super Jack.    Could not get it to work right, and sold it.    It was just too big for normal jack plane work.  

There is also a Stanley 4Square Junior Jack in the shop.    Iron is stamped with the SW.   About the same as a Stanley 5-1/4.    LOVE this little guy!    Same iron as a #3, but the base is 11" long.    And, some of the best handles known to man.   VERY comfy to use.....all day long.

There is a Try Plane as well.    A while back, won a Diamond Edge #6c.   It came in the mail....in a couple of RUSTY pieces.   Refund paid for a new base, and i had to make the new handles.    All else was cleaned up, and reused.   Pheonix like, it arose from the "Crash & Burn" into a very good try plane.    The Rebuilt DE6c will give up see-through ribbons on about ny wood in the shop.  The iron was the wrong size for the plane, so a trade was worked out, and now the iron has a Shark on it.    yep, a Berg iron.  IF you can find one, BUY IT NOW.    

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Planer? I'm the 'planer', and these are what I use...

Very good video. He certainly has them all tuned up well. Steve I think you should go ahead and make that video. I can't think of anyone doing any more of that kind of work than you.

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