Planes I True My Wood With

I think often of how we want a one plane fits all woodworking plane to do all tasks and as a long-term advocate for the very basic, unchanged Stanley #4 without retrofitting a new plane iron of thicker value or harder steel, some might think my thoughts to be different. I use about four or five planes on my bench in any given day. They are all basic planes from Stanley with perhaps a Record version thrown in. They are all English made but no better than their USA counterparts and might be a tad inferior in that the US cousins might have rosewood handles which are very lovely.

We put out a YT video today on the planes I use for truing my wood and having just trued up 400 pieces of oak and walnut of four faces to each all by hand planing only I can tell you that this strategy of mine works like no other. Using my #78 converted iron as a first-level scrub plane hits a new high in easing stock preparation and following on with a converted #4 as a more refined scrub plane transitions nicely in readiness for smoothing and truing and finessing with jack planes and the final level of smoothing planes. This video is to help those who would never or could never and don't want to ever add a power planer to their end-of-the-garden shed.