Faithfull FAIPLANE5 No.5 Jack Plane in Wooden Box

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How many many magnificent ornate buildings around the world have their woodworking done with overly expensive Varitas or Lie Nielson planes? I haven't taken the time to sharpen the blade yet (had it two days only. Out of the box, this plane made whispy curls out of wavy hard (reversing grain and 1" knots) maple with no tearout. I was quite suprised and pleased. It'll be awesome once I properly sharpen the blade. 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. There are a bewildering number of different types of plane, but there seems to be a grouping of the general-purpose bench planes used in converting a roughly-hewn chunk of wood into a straight, flat, smooth, square piece of timber:

How many of the most magnificent ornate buildings around the world had their woodworking done with so called “inferior steel” ? I’m not talking about the artificial situation created at trade shows etc (which I’ve done my fair share). Peter Sefton, owner of Wood Workers Workshop, is very proud to have been part of the development team when the new cryogenically treated high carbon steel blades used in Clifton Planes were developed. His working knowledge and experience of sharpening and woodworking helped develop the improved plane blades that are presently in production and made entirely in Sheffield.

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Well, I humbly responded, “What’s the difference between a standard Stanley and Record plane iron and the vintage wooden version?” 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!

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. 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! 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.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. 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. Have you developed the confidence to land the plane to the wood at a level parallel to the surface?