How many handplanes do you have?

[Thomas Wilson]

I have planes that were my father’s and my grandfather’s, 6 or 8 of those; some undistinguished bench and block planes from years when I worked mainly with power tools; about 20 quality modern planes mostly from Lie-Nielsen but a few Veritas purchased for my recent apartment woodworking phase. I have Primus wooden smooth and block planes that were Christmas presents from the 80’s when Primus was cool. I have a couple of Record spokeshaves, and some no-name spokeshaves from my childhood, probably a present.

[William Fretwell]

Gave three to my son so down to 13.
Seven bench.
Five specialty.
Use them all!
One old wood eBay purchase that is not usable. Not as pretty as the photograph either.

[Stew Denton]

Hi All,

Too many.

About 2 dozen bench planes, a few of which are junkers, some inherited, some waiting to be given away as gifts, several in pieces waiting to be restored, and a small minority in sharpened usable condition.

Two combination planes, 3 block planes, and one moving fillister plane.

Eventually I will have less bench planes.

I do know of one Neander user/restorer/collector who told me that he has about 300 in his collection.

Stew

[John Schtrumpf]

I took an inventory:

Veritas Low Angle Block
Veritas Left Skew Block

Kunz Plus No. 3 Smooth
Veritas Small Bevel-Up Smooth
Veritas Custom #4 Smooth (40°/50°)
Veritas #5-1/4W Bench
Veritas #6 Fore
Stanley #31 Jointer

Veritas Miter Plane
Veritas Bevel-Up Jack Rabbet
Veritas Right Skew Rabbet
Veritas Side Rabbet

Veritas Small Plow (full Imperial)
Veritas S/M/L Router Planes
Veritas S/M/Bull Shoulder Planes

Asian Hollows and Rounds
Ovolo
Reeding
Rabbet
Spoon (Japan)
Compass (Japan)

[Andrew Hughes]

I have four handplanes and four bench planes.
I know I’m very boring

[James Pickering]

Just these three now:

(I have probably have used the No. 4 smoothing plane more than any other)

Stanley No. 4 Bailey smoothing plane - Type 16 (1933-1941)

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Stanley No. 60½ low angle adjustable mouth Block plane

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Stanley No. 203 Block plane circa. 1937

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[chris carter]

My bench planes:
Homemade 26” Woodie jointer
Homemade 16” Woodie jack
Stanley No. 26 transitional jack converted to a fore plane
Stanley Sweatheart No. 4
Craftsman block plane

Joinery planes:
Veritas combination
Veritas router
Homemade ¼” grooving
Infinity 30mm rabbet
Mujingfang 6, 10 and 13mm hollows and rounds
Wooden spokeshaves of unknown brand; one flat and one round bottom
Stanley 51-style spokeshave

[Mike Hutchison]

About 35 to include: Stanley Planes

#2 Bailey

#3 Bailey

#4 Bailey

#5 Bailey

#6 Bailey

#8 Bailey #32 Transitional

#35 Transitional

#45 #110

#3 Bailey (Duplicate; little younger than one listed above)

#39 Dado Plane

#40 Scrub Plane

#60 1/2

#62 Low Angle Plane

Bullnose Plane-little rascal

#72 Chamfer Plane

#78 Rabbet Plane

#118 Block Plane

#102 Block Plane

# 71 Router Plane

#113 Circular Plane

Craftsman Planes

Jointer 22" Length

Gray Rabbet/Fillister Bluegrass #4 Size Bench

[Jake Rothermel]

As few as possible, whilst still having all I need?

Scrub (woodie)
Jack (woodie)
Jointer (woodie)
Smoother (bedrock 603)
two block planes (one's a No19 [I think] and the other's a no-name borg)
router plane (71-1/2)
and there may be a grooving or rabbet plane in my future (I've been eyeing a few to restore)

Some are original irons, some are replacement/upgrades, some have multiple irons for different jobs. I definitely subscribe to the Less Is More school of woodworking as much as I can....

jake

[steven c newman]

Planes..
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Just planes..
Special planes.jpgplanes.jpg
Might have a few...
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Ya think? fellow here in town claims to have around 350 planes.....

[Kurtis Johnson]

Impressive, Chris. If I had a workshop with more stable and controlled atmospheric conditions, I'd go wooden bench planes. I think I would enjoy the immediate feedback of wood on wood. It would be a more aesthetic experience. Nice to see yours are homemade. Kudos!

[Prashun Patel]

Like my garden, the collection grew for the first few years, and now has shrunk to this:

3 spokeshaves
small block
#4
BU smoother
BU jack
BU jointer
large shoulder plane
router plane
wood try plane

The myriad other jacks and smoothers I have now are converted for rough surfacing.

Saw arsenal growing.

[jim hanna]

29 planes, a mix of mid-range modern and cleaned-up antiques.


The nine I’ve highlighted are the ones I’d want to replace if they dropped on the floor and broke, the rest are nice to have but not used as much. My nine of choice includes three plough/combination planes so probably still a bit excessive.planes.JPG

[Jerry Olexa]

I have a bunch but as we used to say about clamps (when building furniture):
You can never have enough

[Keith Mathewson]

More than I need, less than I desire