Colour Name: Multi. Terms and Conditions apply. Faithfull No. Jointer planes are made of different materials. A lever cap with a brass locking screw secures the blade assembly and enables easy release for sharpening. Leave a Comment Cancel Reply Your email address will not be published.

Soba planes are made by Shobha industries in India. Planes such as the Grizzly or Bighorn. A name that has been around for some time is Faithfull. I have owned various Faithfull tools for decades and they are still used by me in my workshop. I have to admit that these tools are very good considering the tiny price. Thankfully the Faithfull brand supplies a range of low-cost hand planes. Some are good and some not so. With some fettling, you will have in your possession a very useable tool that is comparable with the Stanley Bailey in its function.

I am sorry to say I would avoid the Faithfull block plane. Be warned there is a channel on youtube promoting these planes but they are not interested in you developing your skills as a woodworker but only to take your money.

This is my opinion but I think it is fair to say. If you are considering a block plane for shooting end grain then you would probably be just as well of with a No3 or No4 smoothing plane. I have made a video on the block plane angle compared to the smoother.

Are you in the US? Buy on Amazon. With some work, you will have a good useable plane, unlike the low angle plane. I have to admit that when we consider the price of these tools you are getting a lot of tool for the money.

With a little work on the sole and some tweaking, you will have a good tool. This is pretty much the same for all the Faithfull brand of planes. I still believe that an old Stanley Bailey No7 is a better option but it is becoming increasingly hard to find a good example.

We woodworkers just collect them! But if you want a tool you can grow with this No7 Bailey copy is a great solution. Please try again later. I bought this on the basis of good reviews and those saying the plane was fine after tuning. As someone who has bought several old Stanleys on Ebay and rejuvenated them, a bit of fettling didn't scare me. However, this was the worst mechanical condition I've ever seen a plane in though it's redeeming feature was a base that could be made flat and wasn't too bad out of the box which I why I give the plane 2 stars rather than 1.

However, some of the rest of the machining was appalling and the lever cap design is poor in my opinion.

Unfortunately, after I'd quickly sanded the base flat, I was tuning a replacement Axminster Rider iron when I discovered the frog was not seated correctly. Bad machining meant the frog was leaning on the adjustment screw and had bent it. I couldn't see any way to fix this without a lot of work so left the screw out so, at least, the frog would sit at 45 degrees.

I'm not planing on moving the frog in normal use but I would have returned the plane for this fault if I had noticed it before I started tuning. Getting the iron to seat properly required filing of the area around the mouth where some excess paint and bad moulding needed removal. I spent quite some time getting the machined frog surfaces flat too. I'm not keen on the lever cap hole design as being a keyhole shape means it's prone to slipping up on the screw when retracting the blade.

Stanley knew about this in when their kidney-shaped hole appeared. After a replacement iron and a couple of days of work, I've got a reasonable and flat No 7.

However, I had to fix far too many basic manufacturing faults to get there so - 2 stars. I'd have much preferred to have paid Faithfull a little more for improved factory machining. For the price, this is an excellent plane. The base is flat, the sides are square, the handles are comfortable, the adjusters work, the frog is roughly true.

However, the blade is terrible. When it arrived I flattened the back of the blade and sharpened it, it took a good edge and I set to work using it. I was flattening a piece of ash but before I'd finished I stated noticing lines in the otherwise smooth surface left after a pass of the plane. A magnifying glass showed several small nicks in the edge of the blade, something I've not seen in any of my other planes and certainly not what I'd expect after a very limited amout of use.

I went back to my old Stanley No 6 while I waited for a replacement blade a Stanley to arrive. Neither the No 6, nor the Faithful No 7 once fitted with a new blade showed the sort of chipping on the edge that I was getting on the Faithful blade.

Overall a good plane but budget for an additional blade. Photo shows the chipped edge of the blade taken by holding a jeweller's magnifying glass up against my phone - the edge looks curved because of the lens. Images in this review. Had to return the first one as the cast iron frog was snapped go figure but by the miracle that is Amazon a replacement arrived the next day.

As commented by others, this would deserve more stars if there were no obvious signs of rough handling, specifically post machining dinks in the casting that need grinding out with an oilstone, and the most important part, the blade, is The blade was severely dinked on the cutting edge, requiring over a millimeter of steel to be ground away.

Not so easy with only a bench grinder to hand. It then took elbow grease and an oilstone to produce a cutting edge. Micro-fractures running along the length of the blade can be clearly seen : On the upside, the blade is hard forged steel and despite the fractures it is now doing an excellent job of finishing sawn sides on MDF panels, although I expect the blade to fall apart at any time and must acquire a real one sooner rather than later.

This is OK at this price point, but please do replace the blade with something decent. The supplied blade wasn't an even thickness and the bevel was all over the place. After half an hour I gave up on the grid diamond stone I put in a blade Axminster blade for their no. So OK, if the blade is replaced. Maybe I was unlucky, but the overall finish is of a cheap tool, but for the amount I am likely to use it, I can't justify the cost of the Axminster Rider equivalent.

Need to sharpen and hone the blade before first use. Also the base of the plane was poorly ground, spent a lot of time grinding it on a diamond block to alleviate some of the scouring, still need to work on it using a coarser grade to remove material sufficiently to bring the base to a reasonable surface.

Still does a reasonable job on coarse work. One person found this helpful. Considering the price paid, I wasn't expecting much, but this plane was surprisingly good Faithfull No7 Jointer Plane Review Review quality. Overall it looks great and works well.

For a beginner looking for a jointer you'd be hard pressed to find a better entry. Not sure what sheerness and thickness have to do with this review but Ordered one It was faulty, very badly cast steel, had to return, new one seems better but took a fair bit of setting up Bases on both were off The first one was was off in one direction and the next one was Faithfull No7 Jointer Plane Review Us the opposite way so the casting is pretty poorly done No consistency. It does work but you get what you pay for Its good at flattening out wood But is it my favorite plane?

No its not I tend to grip hold of my older ones still which seem to do a better job Took vet little training and a little honing our the box and Faithfull No7 Jointer Plane Review Zeal it Faithfull No7 Jointer Plane Review Game was off.

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