What's your Jack?

[Derek Cohen (Perth Oz)]

Regards from Perth

Derek

 

[DTR]

Stanley No. 5 with a cambered blade

 

[Peter Sefton]

Heavy 5 1/2 Clifton Jack a great plane for general and fine bench work this is my work horse and first plane to be picked up.

Veritas LA Jack with two blades 25 degrees for end grain and general work, 50 degrees blade for rippled or interlocked grain.

 

[Scouse]

Lie Nielsen 62 low angle, early narrow Stanley 5 1/2 with a light camber, WS 5 1/2 with a heavily cambered Quangsheng blade for when things get frustrating...

 

[richarnold]

I'm not sure if you would call it a jack, but my every day user is this 13 1/2 inch panel plane by George buck (but almost certainly by Stuart Spiers) Fitted with it's original marples tapered iron. I just love this plane and use it for just about anything around the workshop.

 

[Scouse]

... It is a monster, and it just powers through the hardest wood ...

You could have a matching set...

http://www.leevalley.com/US/wood/page.a ... ,230,41182

 

[dannykaye]

Record 5 1/2 with a Ray Isles blade and chipbreaker when I need to take off a lot of wood

 

[Unib]

That's a lovely looking thing

I'm not sure if you would call it a jack, but my every day user is this 13 1/2 inch panel plane by George buck (but almost certainly by Stuart Spiers) Fitted with it's original marples tapered iron. I just love this plane and use it for just about anything around the workshop.

 

[marcus]

No. five record (quite a new one, came with plastic handles) with a Hock blade with a nice camber on it. It's my favourite plane. I changed the plastic handles — ergh.

 

[clivethecarpenter]

 

[speeder1987]

A new Stanley no5 with quangsheng blade and Clifton 2 piece cap iron. I have a veritas LA Jack which I use for most other things, but not for heavy stock removal as I don't camber the blade.

I have a home made scrub plane for really heavy stock removal

John