Faithfull No.6 Fore Plane – Precision Machined Cast Iron Wood Planer Hand Tool for Hard & Soft Wood, Stock Removal, Edge Truing & Board Levelling

This is a big plane and it's heavy - it feels really solid and I got it because it wasn't a lot of money for a longer plane than my No. 4 to do a particular job with no expectations one way or another. Quite honestly, I'm very pleased, it's not ridiculously bad out of the box (if you're desperate like I was) and as long as you're not expecting it to do finishing work because that's not what it does. If you need to flatten some big areas, you might need to look at a couple of feet of Jointer Plane as well or instead, but I'm quite pleased with it and am enjoying using it for this kind of work. I got it initially for one job - to do some long panel rough to smooth-ish primary work, followed up by my Stanley Sweetheart no. 4 doing the finishing. So yes, it needed some honest setting up - how far and how obsessive is down to your own level of Crazy Woodworking Madman and the demands of the job you're doing, but giving the whole thing a strip down, a nice sharpen on the stone with regular honing oil, a ride on the strop to final polish, an alignment check for the body and a scrub with fine grit paper/0000 wire wool for another bit of a polish and a wax buffing (so I'm odd like that, sue me), sorted in a pleasantly spent hour or so at the workbench. This got me to a point that's certainly good enough for a DIY'er with reasonable need and use who's not too far along the aforementioned Crazy Woodworking Madman scale. Feels like it will last plenty long enough as long as I don't do something stupid like drop it or wreck the blade and mounting mechanism through being dim.

I got this for flattening and jointing boards. It works well for that. I expected some setup as this is a very cheap plane. It took over an hour with 120 grit carbide paper to get the back of the iron flat (roughly first 15mm closest to the edge) due to some deep depressions. The bevel has been ground on a fairly large diameter wheel but that took much less time to sort and get to a polish. Now that's sorted I'm getting some lovely shavings. The sole was flat when it arrived which is something I wasn't expecting. Overall very happy with it, just expect to have to put some time into initial setup to get the best out of it, unless you get very lucky. I have a couple of other Faithfull planes (a block and a no.4 which I've converted to a scrub), so I knew what to expect both out of the box and after a bit of work.

This is a replacement for another brand number 5 plane that had to be returned. I am under no illusions that this was goingto be a perfect plane, but for £40 I am happy to let this be something I can experiment with. Structurally the main casting of the sole is substantial and sturdy. The sole is dead flat along its length and across its width which is good. The casting is not 90° though. They are perhaps a degree or 2 shy of square, but at this early stage of my woodworking development, its no biggy. Mechanism seems to function as it should, frog is adjustable (which is good, coz it was a mile out when it came) and as in the pictures, I did get good, if thick full width shavings of meranti wood. 2 other minor things. As in the picture the chipbreaker was not evenly ground and the edge was out of square, as was the iron; but nothing that half an hour over a waterstone couldn't heal. So, the last pic shows a shaving of redwood as fine as I could get it, which was 0.002", 2 thousands of an inch thick. Which isn't too bad. So, in general I am happy with what I have. The time will come when better, more refined planes start calling to me, but at this initial stage, this is a useful plane that makes me happy when I'm using it. 40 quid? Bargain.

As per the other reviews, this is not a 'quality' plane, it is a budget plane, and as such it is exactly what I expected. The sole is flat, the iron takes and holds a good edge. One day, if I feel the need, I shall invest in a higher quality No. 6. In the mean time I have no regrets in purchasing it. One complaint though, the quality of the yoke is poor, it must have escaped quality control, because the tip is badly formed, it will not fully retract the iron despite setting the cap iron less than 1/32" from the cutting edge.

Having purchased the Faithfull Tools number 4 and block planes (in the CARPBAG set) and found them to need a bit of setting up prior to use, I was delighted to find that this plane was much more accurately made and the blade sharp and in good condition. The only work needed was to tighten the handles a little bit, which just required a twist of the screwdriver to snug them down fully. Once done, I was able to set the plane to work truing the long edges of a door I'm making and found it very nice to use, taking off long paper thin shavings with ease and also quickly flattening the surfaces of wider boards. It's a nice looking plane and for the money I'm very pleased indeed with it - it's easily good enough for my (DIY) purposes and I can't see why it wouldn't stand light trade use for a few years either. An excellent buy.

Cheap and nasty. The sole was not flat along the length or the width. The blade required substantial grinding and honing as it was neither square or flat, it is also rather thin. The chip breaker is also very thin and also needs grinding to achieve a flat to mate to the blade. Overall casting is rough. The knob and tote are cheap wood dressed up to look decent. With a lot of work this plane could be made to work, but in future I'll but a Stanley Sweetheart and save myself a whole load of heartache.

Very satisfied customer and feel like a professional wood working i really like it i feel comfortable when i use this hand plane thanks to faithfull i have now beautiful hand plane🤝🤝🤝

Very nice foreplane. After the usual tuning and setup, it planes as well as any other (more expensive) plane.

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It took a lot of elbow grease to get this thing working correctly but if you have some extra time and not much money it's a good purchase.