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STANLEY 12-905 ST PLANE 14IN BENCH Amazon.com The Stanley 14-inch No. 5 Contractor Grade Smooth Bottom Bench Plane has a gray, cast-iron base with precision-ground sides and a bottom that's machined to be smooth and true. Created to work efficiently and easily with your bench-top projects, this plane has all the extra features you need to trim and fine-tune your work piece.
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The Stanley 14-inch No. 5 Contractor Grade Smooth Bottom Bench Plane has a gray, cast-iron base with precision-ground sides and a bottom that's machined to be smooth and true. Created to work efficiently and easily with your bench-top projects, this plane has all the extra features you need to trim and fine-tune your work piece.
Versatile, durable, and designed to accomplish tasks efficiently.
Works efficiently and easily with your bench-top projects. . The plane features hardened, tempered-steel construction for precision-ground cutter edge durability that lasts long and true. Its fully machined and polished double-iron cutter and lever give you precise control over the piece at hand -- no matter how hard or uneven the material may be, and the solid brass cutter-adjustment knob is rugged and durable. The frog seat is machined for precise mouth adjustment, and the kidney-shaped hole in the lever cap helps secure the cutter in place so it won't budge, regardless of how rough you handle it. This professional-grade plane also boasts a quick-release cam lock that makes iron removal easy, plus high-impact polymer handles and knobs that are contoured and polished to give you a great grip that permits true accuracy and long use without fatigue. Top it all off with a durable epoxy coating, and you'll enjoy heavy-duty use from this plane for years to come.
Zachary F.
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2025
This product is actually a Stanley No 5 based on the listed length of 14 inches, the No. 4 should be 9 1/2 inches. I knew this going in to the purchase and did receive a No. 5 14 inch plane in the box. The plane did have an arch on the sole plate from front to back leaving the mouth slightly high. This would cause a bigger shaving when first starting the plane on a workpiece and a lot of effort to get the plane started. It wasn't hard to flatten with some 60 grit and a flat surface (I used a piece of scrap granite countertop), but took some time to troubleshoot and hone.
Jonathan Vautour
Reviewed in Canada on September 6, 2023
I was very excited for the arrival of this plane! I just finished restoring a 9 1/4” bench plane and was excited to have its big brother. However on the arrival I was throughly saddened. Not only was the handle broken at the base, but the hardware was all roughed up, as though someone have been cranking and slipping on a screw driver or impact driver when disassembling and reassembling.Another minor issue is that the plane was in no way set up to use, the plane iron cap was set like a 1/2” back from the edge of the plane, the iron is duller then a politician, and the sole has such a rough finish I’m sure it’d probably mark any surface I attempted to use it on. That being said those are all fixable issues, I just can’t believe someone would even send this thing out broken, and in such an unusable state. Stanley used to be the number one name in hand planes, this thing is gonna take a lot of work before I can even use it.
BRIAN
Reviewed in Canada on January 15, 2017
Beautiful tool. Arrived without difficulty. Decided to try without going through the usual setup process, and it worked very well. Will flatten and hone tomorrow, but it is good right out of the box
JP Morency
Reviewed in Canada on April 6, 2017
'they don't make them like they used to' Sole is off by .015 and out of square with a super rough finish. Took me 6 hours to make it right. Once done very good tool. The Bailey system is always the best one to work with. Glad that this system was invented before the people at Stanley start producing second class tool. Stanley guy please do better with the sole .I gave a 4 stars because the tool is very good but it need TLC to start with.
Customer
Reviewed in Canada on July 11, 2016
I see what people are complaining about, but the sole on mine was actually almost perfectly flat, a little bit off but barely, 5 min grind and it was fine.Plastic handles not the greatest, but hey it clearly says contractors grade, not professional grade. so what do u expect for 50-60 bucks. a professional quality made no.5 hand plane will cost you we'll over 100 $, and if your paying any less than that brand new don't expect it to be of the highest quality. Most if not all tools you buy will require a bit of tuning up, even your 400$ Veritas isn't gonna be 100% perfect. The manufactures aren't wood workers anymore they are business men. Stanley does still have quality made products, but don't expect to find them on amazon for 50 $ go to a woodworking store and buy one. People are too fat and lazy these days to go some were to get something, they think they can sit on there computer and have everything at there finger tips, well that not always the case. if u want quality, go look at something for real not through a screen. that way u know the product your getting right away. Come on people smarten up, i realize that's a lot to ask of people these days.All in all i think any real woodworker will tell u, that its a good plane for the price, whether it needs a bit of tune up or not.so if your a real woodworker and you dont have a lot of cash to spend this should be fine for u, a skilled woodworker will be able to make any tool perform the way they want them to, and we dont expect things to be perfect right out the box. To be a good woodworker u need to be a problem solver.
BuyerBeware22
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2015
There was a time when this, the Stanley No.5 bench plane, usually referred to as a "jack" plane for jack-of-all-trades because it can do a lot of the jobs that different bench planes do reasonably well, was one of the first ten hand tools a budding American handyman learned how to use.That time has passed in the USA. We now live in a country where the Big Orange Retail Giant and its big blue counterpart sells all of its non-construction-lumber as "S4S," surfaced on all four sides. The jack plane's unmatched versatility in dealing with rough-cut lumber is almost completely unnecessary today for a new handyman.The two planes a new handyman needs are a block plane and a No. 4 smoothing plane. The block plane is a small handheld plane that will take care of most of the minor issues you might need in shaving end grain and making sure that assembled and glued joint surfaces are flush. The No. 4 smoothing plane is good for making sure wood that is already smooth and level is a bit smoother. In a pinch it can do slightly heavier work and level out a minor defect in the S4S wood you can buy at the BORG or Big Blue.That being said, if you're looking to buy this iconic plane for other reasons, you probably know plenty about woodworking and have heard of its legacy before. If not, do a search on jack planes. You'll hopefully learn among other things that you will need to "tune" planes, prepare them for use according to your own work habits, and sharpen their blades before use. This No. 5 plane will not perform well and you may damage it if you use it without tuning and sharpening it.This is the mid-range standard jack plane in woodworking. There are plenty that are cheaper and less useful, and there are a few that are much more expensive and better, but this is the standard plane and it performs better than most. It perhaps does not perform as well as older Stanley No. 5 planes. There is some argument about that in woodworking circles. Many prefer the performance of low-angle jack planes to standard jack planes. You may or may not.I received mine with no significant defects. Two hours of tuning got it ready for work. Very happy with my new No. 5 jack plane.Saying that this is a good tool, in woodworking circles, is kind of like stating that the sky is blue.
Vladimir
Reviewed in Canada on January 20, 2015
I am a novice in wood working and to buy my first hand plane was a bit hard for me. I decided to go with this tool mainly for a brand. The size of smoothing bench plane is just a perfect for a varieties of task. I was on the way to build my woodworking bench and this plane became very handy. I can tell that this is high quality tool, came with precisely sharp blade. The weight of a tool was just perfect to feel it in the hand, heavy enough while smoothing wood surfaces. Very easy to adjust the deepness for removing wood. This tool I use every time since. It is made in England.
Jon
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2013
This was my first bench plane purchase. I used it to hand plane my giant hunk of glued oak planks for my desktop. I was originally using a cheap block plane, but that cheap plane sucked. As this was my first bench plane, I can't really compare it to other planes.In regards to its cutting ability, it can cut pretty well. I wasn't able to get it to cut super thin ribbons, though, but that might just be because of my lack of experience. The grip is reasonably comfortable. I did tear out a little bit of wood and left some marks with this, but that is also most likely due to my lack of experience. The plane isn't very good when it comes to going over the wood knot thingies in pine (the things that are really hard, seem to be scented, and seem determined to make your job as difficult as possible). I can't complain about the effectiveness of a product if it's due to my own poor technique.My main complaints are the mold seam thingamabob (the handle is plastic, but the base is metal) that was on the rear handle and the play in the adjustment screw. The mold seam really began to irritate my hand after a little while of planing, so I eventually used a wood file to file the edge down. There's a mark where the seam edge thingamabob was, but it doesn't irritate my hand anymore. The play in the adjustment screw isn't going to loosen the adjustment, but it does make it so that you have to tighten/loosen the adjusting screw a little before there is any effect on the depth of the plane.I haven't gotten around to the initial flattening of the bottom (and probably won't anytime soon), but it seemed to be fairly flat when I received it. The blade that came with it has a flat front (it's sharp, I just mean that the edges are at 90 degrees), so I added a little bit of a curve to it myself, to try to reduce the little tracking canyons I ended up leaving because I probably had the plane set a little too deep.In short, I would recommend this plane, although the handle mold seam edge may have to be filed down.
Jesse James
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2012
Like all planes whether new or vintage the first thing you need to do is lap the sole and spend a few minutes sharpening the blade. I have a vintage no. 5 which I adore but I wanted a new one just for comparison. Once tuned up the plane works great just like a Stanley should. Although the tote and fore knob are plastic, its makes no difference when the plane is working right. It has good balance just like the vintage plane it's a good plane for planeing rough stock or smoothing it down. I did have to adjust the location of the frog right from the start but once all the adjustments were made and the sole and blade fine tuned it pairs up easily with my old No. 5. I expect to get quite a few good years from this one as well. It's obvious the plane came down a production line and it's also probable the next plane off the assembley line is a lemon. But for the most part there is still quality in the No 5. It's a good plane and I would recommend it to others looking for a good quality plane to get the job done. I wish I could say that about Stanley's block plane but that's another review.
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