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List Price: $73.40
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Manufacturer: Stanley Hand Tools
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Binding: Tools & Hardware
Brand: Stanley Hand Tools
EAN: 0076174129045
Feature: Smooth bottom bench plane with a 2-inch cutter
Label: Stanley Hand Tools
Manufacturer: Stanley Hand Tools
Model: 12-904
Publisher: Stanley Hand Tools
Studio: Stanley Hand Tools
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Features
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Smooth bottom bench plane with a 2-inch cutter
Hardened, tempered steel gives precision-ground cutter edge durability
Gray, cast-iron base with precision-ground sides and bottom; durable epoxy coating provides long-lasting protection
Solid brass cutter-adjustment knob; high-impact polymer handles and knobs are contoured and polished
9-3/4 inches long; 2-inch cutter; limited lifetime warranty
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Editorial Reviews:
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Bench Plane, Length 9 3/4 Inches, Width 2 Inches, Fully Adjustable.Fully-ground cast-iron bottom with side and bottom machined true. Mouth opening is adjustable.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: junk
Comment: Save your money on the plane tune up books and buy a decent tool. This piece of garbage is not worthy of the stanley name. They used to make fine tools (pre WWII), but now sell unusably poor scrap that is a disgrace to their heritage. The castings are hopeless, and the blades are worse. No amount of filing or sanding will eliminate the chatter marks because the blades are too thin. The blade alloy will not hold an edge and chips with the slightest use. The plastic knob and tote are deplorable. The blade adjuster has more slop than a hog farm. Lie-Nielsen makes the finest planes on the market, and if you want a satisfactory plane, you'll buy one there.
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Summary: High Quality wood plane
Comment: Very high quality wood plane. Do not buy low quality, you will regret it and it will cost you more in hours of labor with a poor quality tool.
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Summary: It's the blade
Comment: After useing both cheaper (great neck) and more expensive (lie-nielsen) planes; I can honestly say the biggest indicator of how well any plane will preform is the blade. I've been able to produce equally good (and bad) results from all three planes. But if forced to make a choice as to prefernce, I have to go with stanley.
The Great Neck Plane handels are just a bit too ackward to use for any extended period of time and the chip breaker is a bit fidgety. The Li-Nielsen is good, and the frog is easier to adjust, but those benefits don't out weigh the price difference and the blades are too thick. They take too long to sharpen. The Stanley is just a straight down the line winner. Is it perfect?-no. You will need to do some work (I had to lap the back of my chip breaker to get it to fit tight against the blade), but when quality is placed against price, it's not a bad choice.
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Summary: Take the time for tuning
Comment: The design of the tool is solid and time tested, and a bargain for the price. However, the sole needed serious lapping (thank goodness I have diamond sharpening plates) to remove a hollow behind the throat. The machining is very rough but I guess that made it easy to read where the hollow was and to check the progress of the lapping. Almost every plane should be lapped and tuned prior to its first use unless you have the cash to lay down for premium plane. I suppose its up to you, but for me, the two/three hours of initial tune up outweighs the extra cash for a ready to use plane.
The blade also needed lapping and light grind to remove a small nick. From there, it was micro bevel and hone as usual. Again, almost every plane will need this out of the box, and I'm fine with that, and still consider this a bargain.
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Summary: Ain't what they used to be
Comment: I have a real problem with the overall machining on this. The sides and bottom are very roughly machined. The sole is so far from being flat - I have spent a couple hours lapping the bottom and I still haven't gotten to the lowest depressions. This makes me wonder if the sole will be 90 degrees to the sides when I'm done. Stanley seems to be trying to compete with the (junky)l ow-price Chinese and Indian planes, rather than be a mid-price alternative to the $250+ Lie-Nielsens and Veritas. I would have preferred to pay in the $80-100 range for a decent plane than $40 for this beast. I've since gotten a few old Stanley planes at the internet auction site, and they have been of much better quality and needed less tuning than this. And that's all I have to say about that.
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