Wood Planes (a guide) - Boat Building Sessions

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I have just chanced on this video. This seems to be supposed to be an instructional video BUT it would put anyone off using your company for wooden boat repairs.
Anyone knows that a No.4 plane is a Smoothing Plane, same as the No.3 and No.4.1/2.
A Jack Plane is always a N0.5, the same length whether wooden bodied or grey cast iron.
No.2 being a Smoothing also
No.6 being a Fore Plane
Stanley used the bare integer while Record used a 0 prefix for the same plane made by them. Stanley made a No.1 which was for a child, these used to be pleantiful before WW2, but as they were difficult to use by an adult were sacrificed to build Spitfires etc during the second world war, when all metal was collected for the war effort. They are now extremely scarce.
The longest plane you can buy in normal production is the No.8 Jointer, NOT a No.7, still made today from some manufacturers. This has a body of 2 foot long. Available from Axminster Tools and others in the UK.
www.axminster.co.uk/lie-nielsen-no-8-jointer-plane-421055
Coopers used to make their own longer plane for jointing the curved edges of barrel staves, but the plane was fixed upside down, one end at floor hight and firmly propped at about 45 degrees. The oak stave was passed over the plane rather than the other way round, in a curving downward motion. These could be up to 4 foot long and look just like a longer and wider version of your wooden Jack Plane.
A Jointer (No.7 or 8) will clip any high areas as a function of the length of its base. While it is useful for fairing spars etc. in getting a smooth taper in one dimension only it is clearly useless at fairing a hull surface which is curved in 3 dimensions and the last thing you want is a plane which will naturally try to create a flat plane. Self defeating for fairing a hull.
For fairing curved surfaces you need a Record No.020 or similar which was produced from 1932 till 2004. There are pleanty of "as new" ones of these on the second hand market for reasonable prices and will last generations. You can adjust these planes to cope with convex or concave shapes.
www.record-planes.com/record-planes-spokeshaves-by-number/
In the days of wooden planes you could buy a proper Spar Plane which had an almost semi-spherical concave base and blade to match. These come up occasionally on the second hand market.