Customer Reviews

Bench and Block Plane Set with Case

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These planes are a complete waist of time. When the items arrived I began taking the smoothing plane apart, as I was wiping the shipping grease off I noticed the tote (rear handle)was not fully seated and pretty loose. I took the top screw off and could not for the life of me get the tote off of the plane. When I put the top screw back on, after giving up getting the tote off, it would not tighten enough and was still not seated right and loose, so that was strike #1. Everything else on the smoother looked ok though.
The block plane was a mess, the mouth would not adjust all the way, strike #2. When I took the sliding sole off I noticed that at the end of the piece, that is part of the mouth, when it was cast it was messed up and it was very shallow. If I would have tried to smoothed the sole that part would have fallen apart, strike #3.
I put everything back together, packed it up and sent it back. This product is very poorly made and I am sorry I wasted my time, just glad I got my money back. I did find an antique plane and with all the work I am putting in it, it will out perform this one hands down.