JORGENSEN No.4 10" Wood Planer, Hand Planer for Woodworking, Hand Plane, Wood Plane, Jack Plane for Trimming, Craft - Professional Smoothing Plane with Ductile Iron Body, Adjustable Cutting Depth

Pros: it works mostly well right out of the box. How? Here’s how:• the iron is sharp enough to pop hairs.• it’s almost perfectly flat heel to toe (flat enough for 99% of people and the other 1% know how to get it perfectly flat which took less than an hour).• all of the adjustments work nice and move smoothly.• the chip breaker sits flush on the iron with no daylight between the two.Other pros:The iron is a good quality steel and the adjustment screws (stainless steel), the body/sole are nicely cast, and the handle/knob are beechwood which will last for a long time with the rest of the plane.It’s pretty affordable. Besides old Stanley’s, I have not found a hand plane under $100 that actually works or can even become functional with fine tuning. Harbor freight, Home Depot, Lowe’s, and Menards were all extremely expensive or cheap trash that will never work no matter how much you try to fix the issues.Lastly the adjustable mouth opening makes this plane extremely versatile. It says smoothing plane which you can use it as such, but you can also open the mouth up and adjust the cut depth for more roughing in work.Cons:It is somewhat heavy for its size. Also for a SMOOTHING plane it won’t work quite right for you out of the box because the irons edge is cut straight corner to corner. For a smoothing plane especially, you want to round the edge so the corners are maybe 1/64th of an inch behind the rest of the edge. That way they don’t cut and you don’t get lines on your surface.

After never really coming to terms with the Amazon Basic plane's two knob adjustments, I went for it and got the Jorgensen #4. I am so happy I did - the difference is night and day.I wasn't sure about how to adjust everything on this one either but after watching a few videos on setting up planes with this type of construction, I got dialed things in. I was in a rush to do some work with it and was pleased with the sharpness of the iron and quality of cut without even doing a "tune up"There are a ton of reviews on YouTube and everyone (except the tool snobs!) really loves their Jorgensens. I plan on getting the smaller ones too.

The Jorgensen #4 is a great plane for the price. It appears well built. Had to sharpen the blade but I guess that is to be expected. The blade sharpened as expected. Once tuned in, I am getting the nice shaves that you see the "experts" on YouTube making.

I recently purchased the JORGENSEN No.4 10" Wood Planer. It arrived in good shape, and I was able to dial in the blade using the adjustment screw without any problems. I set it for a relatively deep cut and it worked great, producing smooth shavings all the way across a 3' long board. I then dialed it back to a shallow fine smoothing cut, and again it worked great, producing nice thin shavings across the entire length of the board. This is a great tool and well worth the money.

Es la segunda vez que compro este producto, y el producto en si es bueno y claro que vale la pena pagar por el... el problema no es el producto, es el empaque. Este que compre por segunda vez llego con todas las piezas sueltas y por lo mismo, la navaja se vio afectada y llego con el filo abollado, Es un muy buen producto, lastima de empaque.

This is a wonderful product that functions exactly as expected. I have yet to buy a Jorgensen product that I’ve been unsatisfied or unhappy with. This thing is razor sharp straight out of the box and cuts beautiful ribbons. It’s easy to make adjustments during set up and while you’re using it.

My first smoothing plane. I really like it. Once the blade was sharpened and adjusted correctly. It made me feel like a real woodworker. That being said. I really have nothing to compare it to.

The media could not be loaded. I definitely took an hour or so, and followed the advice from the workshop companions review easing the edges of the sole and I did lap it for an extra 15 or 20 minutes and put a secondary bevel on the blade. Hard to imagine a better result for the money. I think out of the box would have been a no go due to the sharp edges of sole leaving marks on surface but now it’s a joe and very effective.