Infinity Tools Wood Jack Hand Plane
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The All-Around Shop Workhorse for Planing!
Use the jack plane to get stock to final dimensions before finishing with a smoothing plane. The jack plane is designed according to the specifications and requirements of leading joinery masters. Made of European beech hardwood with a long-wearing hornbeam sole, these planes are ready for a lifetime of use.
In the production process, special attention is given to the blade seat and mortise of the body. The plane mortise is designed to prevent the clogging of the plane mouth with wood shavings whereas the mouth is narrow enough so as to prevent the chipping of the flattened surface. The design of both the Jack Plane and the Smoothing Plane is the same, the difference lies in the seating of the blade angle. For the Jack Plane the angle is 45°, whereas the blade angle of the Smoothing Plane is seated at a steeper 49°.
The Smoothing Plane is equipped with a steel alloy 48mm-wide (1.9") blade with a chipbreaker.
Our premium wood body bench planes now feature a Norris style adjustment mechanism that makes them very easy to use. This traditional adjustment mechanism allows the depth of cut to be adjusted by turning the brass knob. Pressing the knob right or left will adjust the skew of the iron in the plane body. The Wedge also features a brass tensioning screw with thumb knob that makes securing the iron a snap and improves tension near the end of the wedge where it matters most.
Blade may require initial flattening of the back and honing before use.
220 x 65 x 130mm (8.7" x 3.6" x 5.1"). Made for us by a European company that has been making hand tools for over 100 years.
The blade is made of steel alloy CrV hardened and tempered to 58HRC. The blade is coated with oil and delivered in shrink wrap. The durability of the blade and sharpeness is significantly extended.
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Go ahead. It's worth it.
I am a newb. But no one else is writing reviews, so here's my opinion anyway. This was the very first plane that I ever bought. I got it because I was fed up with competing for old #5 Stanley planes on ebay. I finally got one of those Stanleys while I was getting comfortable with this one. The Stanley is ridiculously heavy, and it needs a lot of work. Maybe someday I'll have time to make it usable. Meanwhile, my Infinity jack plane kicks butt. I have two slightly negative points about it, and they're minor: 1) when I got it, the chip breaker was screwed in too tightly (I was afraid I was going to break something while I was trying to sharpen everything up) 2) it took my hands a while to toughen up and build the calluses to make pushing this comfortable 2 or 3 weeks ago, I would have complained about how badly it fit my hand and how much it hurt. I used it for about 3 hours today, and it was a joy. The body is nice and square. So it's easy to check your work. For me, a major selling point is that the cutting iron is nice and soft. I don't need a motorized grindstone to sharpen it up. Cheap whetstone does fine. This thing does its job really well: it is *great* at flattening. It's also fine as a finishing plane. I haven't chamfered the blade enough to really use it as a scrub plane, but it can also gouge out some serious thickness carving. My only real complaint is the Norris screw. Once you get everything adjusted correctly, it's nice to be able to pull it all apart, sharpen, and drop it all back into place again. But putting it into place in the first place takes a lot of trial and error. And everything can change when you pull out the wedge and shake things around a bit. You go from "I'm not cutting anything at all" to "I'm wedged in and going to mangle this board with tearout" without actually doing anything except reseating your plane's wedge. The Norris screw is just held in place by magnet. I'm still trying to decide my love/hate relationship with it. Mostly, I really love this plane.
