George and Rob's Favorite Planes

You know my favorite handplane 4.5 Boeing 747. It is big. It is big and and Chucky. Do you you're like, tell me how handplanes fit into your woodworking before we go any further, OK? And this is more for the folks at home than for me because I kind of know, but they may not.

So I use it to clean up edges. I use it to clean up glue joints, uh, like dovetails or box joints and pretty regularly like is that for you. You know, you're, you're more likely to pick up a handplane than a sander, is that yeah, especially now that I'm in a smaller shop or to get my belt sander I have to lift it off the top shelf and then set it up, whereas I can just grab this thing and go to town right? and that so for me, um, that's not me at all. I'm way more likely to grab a random orbit sander or a belt sander, but I do have a plane that I really, really like that I'll talk about.

So sorry because, because it's kind of dinky it's little. Tell me, tell me, yeah, yours is bigger, um, and what is this again? The number this is a, a 4.5, and the reason why I like the 4.5 is that this iron is the same iron that is used in an 07. Or 7, which is a jointer plane. So if I'm gonna be doing a lot of planning, I sharpen up several of these irons.

I have them there and then as I'm going I can just replace each sharp each iron when it gets dull, and I can use it on either of those planes. So for me, um, block plane is my fave. This is a Lee Nielsen plane. I think it's a 110 or 112. Don't hold me too tight to that number, um, low angle plane.

So I like it in that I will reach for this when I'm gonna put a champ for on an edge or I wanna do a little bit of a round over or if I've got like something standing proud, you know, the end of a dowel standing proud above a face, it's low angle so I can hit that end grain a little bit, um. And I think for me this is really a throwback to my construction days when in my nail apron a low angle block plane was very standard issue stuff because when we were putting siding on a house and you're trying to match the angle on a gable end, it wasn't unlikely to take the block plane out of your apron and trim the end of that to get that angle of perfect match to the rake of the roof um but so for you general purpose device that you use for a lot of different stuff like. Here's, here's one example. It's very good. Uh, this is some dovetails.

Uh, they're sticking up just a little bit, which is the way you'd want to make a dovetail is like the end grain run past the, but you want them to, but in the end, you, you know, you want to flush. So that's not a decorative thing you leave that way. It is. So you just go over it with this. Uh, you don't wanna cut all the way past that piece of, uh, grain because you could tear it out.

So come at it from the other direction. And And then with that plane would you also be inclined to like smooth a face joint an edge, so a good general purpose plane. So for me with this guy I was talking about champering this is a piece of hickory so if I run this at a 45 across that corner. And that's so smooth it's gonna take very little sanding so there, you know, I, I do fall into the bracket of times when if I can grab a hand tool rather than plug a tool in if I'm doing this once this is faster if I'm doing that 20 times, I'm gonna put a cham for a bit in the router, um, but I do, um, I, I like the work that they do, but I'm not in as deep as you are but so for me. A low angle block plane is my one go to plane and for you 4.5, 4.5.

What's your favorite? I'm sticking with the block plane. all right. Is it mine? That's yours for strokes for different folks, yeah, I'll go with that.