Faithfull No.10 Rebate Plane – Precision Machined Cast Iron Wood Planer Hand Tool for Hard & Soft Wood, Rebate Cutting, Shoulder Trimming & General Bench Joinery

Received this very promptly once ordered, I've not sharpen it yet ,but the plane is a nice bit of kit well worth the money, I've being in wood working for over 30 yearsAnd handled a lot of tools so you get a feel for quality tools, this isIts not completely perfect...!! I have noticed a few imperfections but they are minor items which I feel I can sort out,Hence four stars ! This is a good all round plane which I feel it will become my favourite go to plane for everyday use( update 11/01/18 I've been using this plane for the last few monthsGreat bit of kit needed a bit of tinkering with, but worth it has the lightness of a smoothing planeBut the body of a Jack plane bought a new blade for it but not used it yet ...!! the faithful blade sharpens up well I love using this plane !!! Seem such a versatile bit of kit,my only regret is that I did not buy the block plane from Faithfull as well!!I would recommend them to anyone who requires good quality tools at fair prices !!

I had several Faithfull planes already before ordering this one. I have found them very significantly cheaper than vintage Stanley and Record equivalents available from sites such as Ebay ... let alone offerings from the boutique manufacturers of new planes like Veritas and Lie Nielson. And, so far ... despite the many negative comments I have encountered in reviews ... every one has been accurately machined and well-presented. I have put time into improving the finishing and adjusting to my own preferences. But I have never been disappointed. All, and most especially the giant no. 7, have performed really well after an hour or two's preparation. For a serious hobbyist on a modest budget, they have been excellent both in terms of value and in terms of performance. Maybe they would lose out against the alternatives in a beauty contest ... but I don't care about how pretty my woodworking tools are, only that they really work and that, together, we get the job done.Buying Faithfull's No. 10 still felt like taking a big risk, however. There's a lot that can go wrong with a rebate plane and I was particularly concerned that the sole would not be flat/smooth. I needn't have worried ... the plane's geometry was perfect out of the box ... no flattening required ... sides were clean and square to the sole (not that that really matters ... I will not be using this for shooting board ends!). The frog was well seated in the body of the plane and the points of contact were cleanly and accurately machined. All the fixing and adjustment screws were properly aligned.Disappointments?:The cutting iron is pretty thin as with most Faithfull planes. I expected chatter ... but in practice there isn't a problem. It's the same with my other Faithfull planes, which also all work well despite light blades ... honourable exception is the exceptionally fine Faithfull No.7, which sports a heavy iron and cuts like a hot knife through butter.The plane comes coated with some strangely evil lacquer that is amazingly difficult to remove. Using a combination of steel wool, 360 wet and dry paper, metal polish (Brasso), disk brake cleaning fluid, and a lot of elbow grease, I got the plane clean in about three unpleasant hours. On the positive side ... it was totally rust-free. My impression is that whoever it is in India that actually manufactures Faithfull tools produces more exotic planes like the No.10 only every now again and that they typically get stored for a pretty long time before they are sold. Coating them with some vile compound to resist erosion is probably very necessary. But it's a PITA for the people who buy them. I can live with it.

Fantastic value for money. Ok it's not high tolerance stuff but this is a really solid and well designed tool that does the job it's designed to do and I suspect will last. The finish is actually quite good and the blade is even reasonably sharp out of the box! Presumably a cast from old record or stanley tools of yester year that's been acquired and put back into service by faithful (whoever they are..).That said, mine had a slight misalignment in the blade grind (easily corrected or compensated for with the controls) and I had to send the first deliver back as it was broken in transit.

For £45 (what I paid, they are more like £60 at Screwfix) this is amazing value. I bought it to plane a wavy door frame that was causing issues in the middle of a new door, and clearly had been installed badly in the 80s when the house was remodelled. Is it the best made Rebate plane, no.. but it is good enough, it honed ok, and once adjusted did the job well, taking off even amounts of material. If I was using it every week or every day I would buy a better one, but I will use this once in a blue moon, so it's fine.