JORGENSEN No.4 10" Wood Plane , Hand Plane for Woodworking, Professional Smoothing Plane for Trimming, Craft - Hand 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.

I was a little skeptical about not buying like a record power or Stanley plane, but this thing is pretty good. Nice flat surfaces, well machined. Ran it across my diamond flattening plate just to give it a little bit more of a flattened sole and now it works just wonderfully. Sharpened the blade and it cuts very nicely.

I gave this plane 5 stars for several reasons. The price was competitive with most low end No. 4 planes. The plane arrived in good shape. The packaging was acceptable. It's probably the 'cleanest' No. 4, low budget plane I've ever purchased. The blade is good quality. Typical of planes in this price range, tuning is required. The blade has a typical 25 degree grind that has to be polished, and the rest of the plane needs to be checked as you typically would for flatness and square. Aside from sharpening, my plane arrived in very good shape, meaning the frog was flat and adjusted, the sole was flat, the body was square, the blade clamp was flat. The take-up or play in the blade depth adjustment knob is consistent with mid-price range planes, let alone low cost models like this one. All in all, I gave it 5 stars because, for the money, it's literally as good as any of my $200-300 dollar planes, and didn't require any more tuning than those did.

I debated about whether to keep it or not. The tote is annoyingly loose-just enough to bother me. However the iron takes and holds its edge, and the frog and body are solidly made. I like the way it works, especially with my shooting board. I think I can solve its only problem by somehow shimming the tote’s mounting screw.

Excellent smoothing plane right out of the box. Flat sole and easy mouth adjustment. All square and ready to use. Made shavings right out of the box. After honing the blade and lapping the back it will give the whisper shavings everyone talks about. Jorgensen doing wonderful things lately with their tools. I highly recommend this plane as well as the other bench planes from Jorgensen. Looking forward to getting the #5 Jack plane if it goes on sale.

I purchased several of these Jorgeson planes to be able to leave them on job sites where I might not want to leave Nielsen Planes or older Stanley I was pleasantly surprised there was no deflection on the soul. The blade came very sharp. It’s a tremendous value. If you don’t want to spring for some of the higher and planes or if they’re unavailable, this plane is very much suitable for most work. I have had a cabinet shop and restoration furniture shop for about 50 years so have a fairly good understanding of hand planes, and how they operate, and I would consider buying this at any level of a woodworker that you might be.

Impressed, by the quality. Yes I had to sharpen the blade, and take down the rough edges. The cap iron is of an interesting design. Easy to adjust, for now this #4 is my preferred plane over old Stanleys. Overall a good value.

Looks good , seams to be made well . Only concern is the blade , would recommend using a higher carbon material . Other than that , it work's great .

Absolute Empfehlung, funktioniert hervorragend und ist sehr gut verarbeitet und das für das Geld :o . Habe gerundet 60 Euro bezahlt und die ist er auf jeden fall wert (normalerweise mehr vor allem wenn ein anderer Name drauf stehen würde ... aber pssst). Direkt aus der Box heraus ist er schon brauchbar scharf, läßt sich sehr einfach einstellen mit wenig Spiel und die Seiten sind plan sowie rechtwinkelig. Allerdings muss man ein wenig mit dem Lappen überschüssiges Öl abwischen. Und klar natürlich sollte man sich definitiv zumindest ein wenig damit auseinandersetzen und es läßt sich hier und da nach Bedarf auf jeden Fall noch etwas personalisiert feintunen im Bezug auf Schärfe, Einstellungen, Ergonomie usw.. Hier ist die zu bekommende Basis bezogen für das Geld wirklich sehr gut bis extrem gut und falls der Preis in oder nah an dem von mir gezahlten Bereich von 60 Euro bleiben sollte eine absolute Kaufempfehlung. Nur die Farbe erinnert doch sehr stark an einen Fernostversender mit T als Anfangsbuchstabe und einem mu am Ende xD

bulky and uncomfortable grip, for this price I expected way better product

Exceeded my expectations. After honing the blade, it works perfect.

Me encanto, buen producto.

Poor quality casting of frog makes it hard to recommend. It seems impossible to contact seller and the only option is to send it all back and hope they agree that it is faulty and refund.