Best Hand Plane For the Money I've Ever Used
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ม.ค. 2025
- In this video I give you a detailed tour of the best hand planes for the money that I've discovered so far. I've been woodworking professionally for 40 years, and used many hand planes. Most new planes produced today are cheap and poorly made, since price wars have driven quality lower and lower over the years. Not these ones. Quality is great and price is, too. Learn more here: www.busybeetoo...
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Thank you. I just picked up a 5 1/2 and a 7. Black Friday helped. A straight edge on the sole of the 5 1/2 straight, sideways and diagonal with zero light getting through. Off to a good start.
This is obviously a commercial and please be clear in the video description or state it at the beginning. Thanks!
I think I just watched an infomercial.
basically flat-out informercial bullshit. This guy hasn't done a day of woodworking in his life.
Already after 3 minutes I thought the same thing, and stopped watching...
I wanted to scream "bulls$##" in his ear several times in the first 5 minutes.
Really great vid! Full of great info.
A real pleasure to watch and listen to a man who knows his subject so thoroughly. Thanks.
It looks like there's a manufacturer in India who has a lock on sepele totes and knobs for mid-level hand planes that are not quite right in shape but otherwise have a good fit & finish. Those look just like those on the Bench Dog's I've seen and the tote and knob my No. 7 Taylor Tools Jointer Plane came with. Fortunately, for me, the tote retaining rod (& also the tote toe bolt) is located in the same place and at the same angle as Stanley uses so Stanley replacement totes and knobs fit. (I replaced mine with ones made out of padauk.)
I watch your videos often but this was a 13 minute info commercial for Busy Bee products I hope they paid you well!
I love planes that are made in the 1920 -1930 that says Stanley with the red wood handles I got mine at swap meets and it's the only Stanley product I have
Informercial and Canadian, doesn't seem to be available in the USA!
That Busybee hand plane looks exctly like my Bench Dog from Rockler and is made with the same wood for the handle... same price points too. I agree, you don't need to spend a ton of money to get a good NEW handl plane. Mine is made in India
wait... that's just a grizzly plane! same!
Great stuff. Any idea when next online “Woodworking for Beginners” will run again?
Hello Keith! Thanks for your note and interest. The next scheduled time for my Woodworking for Beginners course isn't until March, but if you wanted to take it one-on-one with me now (or sooner than March), I could arrange that. Just let me know. Email is good. Here's my personal email: steve@stevemaxwell.ca. Bye for now, Steve
In where they made this planes?
China. You can get a less refined one from Alibaba for $40.00
I am a machinist 01 steel isn't the best hader you make it. It becomes more brittle doesn't stay as sharp 60 to 62 Rockwell is good.
where these planes are made? or country of manufacture? thanks!
From their appearance, I'd say Busy Bee, Bench Dog and Taylor Tools all have contracts with the same manufacturer in India.
I gotta say for the money, the best plane I've ever used is this one I just built for $0 .
I bet yours works better
Great in-depth report. Thank you
You should mention at the beginning of your video that it is an info-commercial. This video is all over their website to promote these planes. I know someone who purchased a Craftex tool. The tool was not working after 6 months and they never honored their warranty. The other 2 Canadian hardware stores, at least honor their warranty. Why would one trust their hand planes? These are supposed to be the creme de la creme of hand tools...
Great tutorial, thank you so much!
Glad it was helpful!
They sound like nice planes, but . . . They aren't particularly inexpensive, though less of bite than Wood River planes are. The only thing I disagree with about what makes good planes is the claim about needing a thick iron. I use old Baileys, around 100 years old, or more, and they have the original "thin" blades. I have never had a problem with chatter. That is not particularly surprising because Stanley's competition would have eaten their lunch if Stanley planes were hard to fettle. I have one plane that _did_ chatter, and the problem was the blade. The blade was bowed, and because of that was not supported by the frog. With the lever cap firm when the lever is worked, the blade resisted enough to lift itself off the frog surface slightly. Pushing the plane causes the blade to flex and release as it moved over the wood, leaving a surface like an older power jointer does. A thick bowed blade might not have done this, but neither does a properly flat, thin blade. Fettling the chip breaker, insuring the edge fits seamlessly to the blade, and locating the edge properly on the blade does the rest of the job.
I would rather have a thick and heavy chipbreaker than a plane iron. That way resharpening opperations will not take as long without having to resort to a tertiary bevel which would still need the secondary renew weekly.
An excellent idea would be to post video when the product is actually AVAILABLE(in stock). Also to post links to the products you're pitching for sale.
I'm no wood worker but a machinist. I can see the nicer plane has high quality workmanship. I always buy high quality tools over cheap ones. Makes my job eaiser.
I could not add a public comment but hope this reply gets through as a comment. Was the closed captioning done by a Vietnamese with a poor grasp of the English language? I need the CCP but this one came through as gibberish,
For those that have no idea what goes into a decent hand plane this probably sounds good. Price is the only attractive point in this guy’s spiel. The least expensive A1 steel in the iron, cheaper in the cap iron, a pressed steel 2 piece yoke and a cheap pressed blade adjuster are just some of the reasons that novices should avoid and can if they do their research prior to the purchase of a plane. There are much better alternatives to these planes made in China and India.
As it appears you are using pre-production samples it would be interesting to test a few examples from whenever product eventually becomes available (In a year or so?) and see if the production lives up to the samples. As the web site is careful not to mention where these are made one must assume China.
Yes, Alibaba has them for $40.00
They are made in India actually, and no, they are not the same planes that alibaba has for $40.00 as Dan claims
@@vladg5216 They could be the same casting and built up to different standards. Made in india is not the same as assembled in india and made in chine.
Where can these be purchased?
BusyBee tools ( in canada ) , but they are sold out at the moment
Unfortunately not sold outside Canada
In USA sold by rockler under the "bench dog" brand.
@@ureasmith3049, If so, I have one of their 3/4" No. 92 Shoulder Planes and their Router Plane. Both work very well
@@ureasmith3049okay so it’s twice the price then and no longer even worth n consideration. The only reason the busy bee is cool is because the jointer (for example) is $140. At 260 you’re starting to creep up in Veritas.
If you going to spend that kind of money buy Lie-Nielsen. Made in America and the best.
Not so friend. Veritas is an excellent high quality Canadian made series of bench planes, very innovative and competitively priced. Customizable as well. Nothing wrong with LN but expensive.
@@richardc6932And worth every cent.
Didn’t see these models on there web site
these planes are 200 plus dollars, how is that affordable. If thats the case, i could literally wait a it longer and get a machine planer
You must have been paid well for that
Thick blades are not better it's just a fad and attempt to make you buy a new blade.
Very few planes wear out an iron in 100 plus years.
Two things. First I’ve never seen this guy before, this looks like a commercial for Speer & Jackson. Second I’ve been watching wood working videos for about three years now, Paul Sellers Rex Kruger, James Write etc. One quick question. Why has this guy whose channel is not about hand tool woodworking come up in my feed?. (My Utube feed is about 70% hand tool woodworking, that’s what I look for and that’s what the algorithms feed me. I’m no expert on Utube algorithms but I suspect someone maybe Speer & Jackson maybe paid to get this video into the feeds of hand tool wood workers. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but excuse me while I get my 22nd booster and wear an N95 mask 24 hours a day so I don’t die of Covid.
Hi Scott! I'm the guy who made the video, and I don't know why it came up in your feed. I do cover woodworking things fairly often (I'm a cabinetmaker), so perhaps that has something to do with it. I've never heard of Speer & Jackson, but I made this video in my own shop a couple of years ago. All I know is that it's a great plane, especially for the money. Thanks for watching!
Steve
Any product that doesn’t ship to USA basically doesn’t exist. Huge fail. Doesn’t matter if it’s good or if it’s cheap. It’s for Canadians only.
Hello Carl! I was under the impression that that planes would be available in the US, but that they weren't at first. I've got an email in to Busy Bee now. In the past I've had Americans ship their plane purchase to me, then I pop it into the mail to go down to the States. If you'd like me to do that for you, just send me an email at steve@stevemaxwell.ca.
Thanks for watching!
Steve
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"Affordable" used very loosely here
Compared to Lie Nielsen planes, or even the fairly cheap Veritas, these are extremely affordable.
If they can't give the price on the web page you recommended, forget it, they're made of unobtanium. Down arrow, skip and move on.