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21st November 2014, 07:59 PM #1Senior Member
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Can I trim a #6 hand plane & use as a #5 1/2 jack plane? Your opinion needed
I picked up an older #6 Stanley plane cheap $20.00 and was thinking about cutting the tote end down making it a wide # 5 1/2
Or maybe using as it is as an extra long jack plane to flatten some boards as it is.
Sure a bedrock style frog might be great on a nicely machined #5 WR import but $159.00 is out of my budget right now.
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21st November 2014, 08:42 PM #2
I like the idea of keeping it as is personally. Shame to butcher a good #6.
Also perhaps use as a shooting plane ?Glenn Visca
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21st November 2014, 08:58 PM #3
Use it as it is. As said it would be a shame to butcher it. With a slight camber on the blade it will be quite a usefull plane for a good range of work. Sooner or later a 5&1/2 will come along at a good price.
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John
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21st November 2014, 11:00 PM #4
Don't cut that #6 down
A #6 is a really useful plane -- it's the tool used by NSW TAFE to train cabinet makers.regards from Alberta, Canada
ian
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17th April 2015, 05:10 PM #5SENIOR MEMBER
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Don't you dare!
I only read this thread as it came up at the bottom of an unrelated thread on Jacks.
My Record 06 is a lovely "Jack of all trades" plane that performs a variety of roles. Away from home it and a Low angle 60 1/2 are about all I use for most jobs. It makes an acceptable Jack if you are strong enough to overcome the extra cutting width, and used for skewed slicing it can level and joint also. About the only task it can't reliably perform for me is for smoothing.Sycophant to nobody!
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17th April 2015, 05:25 PM #6GOLD MEMBER
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I agree with above comments.
Tom
"It's good enough" is low aim
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15th May 2017, 07:24 PM #7
You could do what you suggest, but a No.6 is only 3" longer than a No.5 1/2 - and the same width (unless you want a pre-WW2 5 1/2 which is 1/8" narrower). Trouble is, once you've cut 3" off a plane you can never stick it back on.
Better to use it at it's current length until you're sure you can't live with it. You can set up the blade same as you would on the proposed No.5 1/2. Just because it say "No.6" doesn't mean you have to set it up as a fore plane. I think it's Charlesworth who's set up a No. 5 1/2 "Jack plane" as a smoother.
My tuppence worth.
Cheers, VannGatherer of rustyplanestools...
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15th May 2017, 07:49 PM #8Senior Member
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That is a really odd thread bump, seems it's happened before.
I would love a No6 plane.
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15th May 2017, 09:06 PM #9
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16th May 2017, 12:32 AM #10
Those dates can be easy to miss . He hopefully never cut the 6 down . Probably not after all the good advice not to.
For a long time all I used was a 3 a 4 and a 6 . I did everything with that 6 . A Great plane size I think.
Rob
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