V3 Replacement Blade for No. 4/No. 5 Bench Plane Reviews

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RE From Katy

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“As others have mentioned, these are too thick for the throat of an older Stanley #5. I am fortunate enough to have a "good" #5 and a "parts" #5. I was able to widen the throat of my "parts" #5 with a file in order to accept this thicker Woodriver blade. The product description should have mentioned this by now. Bigger is not always better.”

5 Helpful Report

Posted 3 years ago

“Iâ€™ve had this iron for a good solid 9 months and I have to say it has been absolutely frustrating the entire time. It arrived with rust. Sanding it off apparently I couldnâ€™t get all the way to the bottom of it as it came back on me despite treating the iron after. I finally resorted to vinegar to make sure I completely got it all (no, itâ€™s not my shop humidity â€“ nothing in my shop has ever developed rust). The back was nowhere near flat; it had a hollow (not a problem) that was skewed to one side (PROBLEM!). It took an hour to get it flat for the first half inch. Hereâ€™s the big one though. The edge on this thing just does not hold up well. It sharpens up fine, but the edge gets damaged too easily. This is sitting in a no.5. I use it for removing marks from the fore plane and squaring edges on medium length boards. Itâ€™s the third most used plane I have and it is the most problematic iron BY FAR. My most abused plane is a 100+ year old Stanley transitional I have set up as a fore plane with the original iron that is maybe just over half the thickness of this Woodriver iron and the same bevel angle. That thing gets absolutely abused to death. I regularly take Â¾ stock down to 1/2 â€œ with it, flatten wildly twisted boards with it, flatten wood I split from logs (!!), etc. Probably chews up 20 times as much wood as the plane with the Woodriver in it. And it hasnâ€™t seen a diamond stone in the past 6 months, only the strop because it has never chipped or rolled, even tearing through the knots in knotty pine boards like the project Iâ€™m currently working on (skewing the plane obviously, but not always!). My second most used is a smoother and it also has only seen the strop in the past six months â€“ although itâ€™s A2, but still that means itâ€™s never chipped (I have no idea what the woodriver steel isâ€¦). The Woodriver iron regularly chips and rolls (more chipping than rolling) and has to get a few to a lot of passes on the diamond stone - almost every day I use it (luckily Iâ€™m just a weekend warrior or Iâ€™d only have half an iron left!). As opposed to the other problems, thereâ€™s no fixing this one. Anyway, this iron is so utterly frustrating. I have no problems like this with any of my other bench or molding planes. So today I called it quits and ordered a new iron (not a Woodriver).”

4 Helpful Report

Posted 7 years ago