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    STANLEY Hand Planer, SpokeShave, Flat Base (12-951)
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    STANLEY Hand Planer, SpokeShave, Flat Base (12-951)

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    Dhs. 262.00
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    • Mpn: 12-951
    • Country of manufacture: Mexico
    • Manufacturer: Stanley
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    Customer Reviews

    Better than my old StanleyI really like this spokeshave. Not only is it inexpensive, it's sturdy and well made. Like all such tools, the blade needs some serious honing before the plane works really well, but after investing a few minutes on the stones and strop, it's a truly decent usable tool. It's a work horse. I have a really old Stanley this size but without the nifty blade adjuster screws. They are a huge improvement! In this one case, I like the new plane much better than my old pre-war classics. The blade seems to take and hold a decent edge so far so the steel is at least average.5Okay - needed a bit of tune-up out of box.You will need to tune this up a little bit out of the box. Needed to flatten out the throat a bit - I used a diamond file. Stropped the edge to remove a burr from the factory sharpening. Only thing 'Stanley' about this item is the cheap plastic pouch it came in and a tiny sticker... so it might be worth taking a shot at a cheaper - identical - no-name brand if you can find one. Overall I am pleased for the price. If you aren't able or willing to prep or sharpen this tool properly, I would recommend you get something like a paint scraper instead.3Good for those who like to tinker with of Hot Rod hand toolsI would say pretty much what many of the others said: when viewed as a kit or project, this was well worth the (under $20) I paid for it ... but I'm sure that to a perfectionist, or to someone who is used to kick-butt tools, it stinks to high heck when it is (unfairly?) compared to top of the line spokeshaves from other companies.To me, I can't give it five stars since it's one of those "will need lots of work, to get it functional and useful" sort of things; but for what I actually paid for it, I can't complain. To me, even a fairly decent blade ("iron") at the price I paid for the whole tool, would have made it a fair-enough exchange for the money I paid for it. I have to admit, though, that I'm saying that now that I got it working half-decently. While I was trying to figure out ways around the bad machining work and design flaws and so on, I would have rated this tool much lower!The problems my particular sample had mostly involved poor drilling and tapping work. (Mostly; some of the design work is questionable too, particularly in regards to the iron's holder's shoulders not really touching the main body's cut-outs!) Due to those things, I generally felt like this tool could be described as being Stanley's blade, in a cheapie or counterfeit casting. I'm not saying that's what it absolutely is: that's just how I'd try to describe how it felt to me, when I was tinkering with it.Right out of the box (bag) it had fallen apart. As it turned out, one of the two adjustment screws was barely hanging on by a few threads. Since one of the screws had fallen out, I looked down the screw's hole. I was rather appalled that they'd only drilled and tapped it, a very short distance. I took a cut-off wheel in a Dremel (moto-tool) and cut a slot in the top sides of both of the vertically-aligned or sticking-up blade adjustment screws, so I could try to get them both to seat, at the bottom of that shallow recess. Which only half-worked. There was, apparently, a burr or bad spot on one of the two adjustment screws -- (the one that had fallen out) -- which had prevented the factory workers from seating that particular screw. I took the lazy person's way out, and instead of going and buying a matching die (to re-thread that screw) or replacing the screw itself, I just ran the adjustment nut up and down that screw's thread, until it moved up and down freely. That got rid of the burr (or whatever the actual problem was) that prevented that particular screw from seating well, in the tapped hole in the main body casting. So that particular problem was fixed quickly and easily. (But not everyone has a Dremel tool and a cut-off wheel.)The next problem which showed up, once I had fixed the first one, was that the factory must have used an overly-short screw to hold the iron onto the main body casting. (By which I mean: one that had the correct thread count (per inch of length) but was too small of a diameter, to actually fit into the hole they'd drilled and tapped.) All I know is, the moment after I first tried to turn or adjust that screw, at all (that is, moving it less than one quarter of a turn), it felt like some chemical thread-locking material had broken loose; followed by the screw being so loose in it's hole that I could move it a bit from side to side, with gentle hand pressure. Seeing how short the screw was, I thought I'd just replace it with a longer one of the correct diameter and a longer (more appropriate) length -- but changed my mind.In thinking that second problem through, what occurred to me was that I'd be better off re-engineering that part of the tool. Simply adding a new screw of the same type wouldn't be the most firm and final fix. So, after thinking it through for a bit, I ran one of the most common sizes of a threading tap through that hole (without first drilling a new hole) just to allow a "quarter twenty" hardware store bolt to pass through, and sort of grab on. What I mean by "sort of grab on" is that I wasn't counting on the threads in that hole to do the holding. I had selected a short (about one inch; maybe 3/4") long bolt, with a flat underside, and had done a bit of gentle grinding (using a Dremel and a sanding drum) on the main body casting, to allow that bolt to pass through the body, FROM THE BACK ... and then, stay there; more or less like a permanent part of the main body casting. The threads that stuck up, through the main body, allowed me to drop the iron over that "stud" and then drop the iron's "holder-inner" (can't think of the real name for it; sorry!) on top of that; with the stud or threaded rod sticking through both of them. Then, I used a wide-shouldered hardware store nut as the main adjustment nut; with an acorn nut over that one, to lock it all firmly down. Since it's passing through the body, from the back side, and it's of a larger diameter, and it's held on with not one but two nuts, it's MUCH more firm and stable of a locking mechanism than the factory had included. (One undersized screw?!)There were only four screws on this unit, and two out of the four gave me some initial hassles -- but the fixes were all easy to implement.The only big problem which remains, that I cannot easily fix without just making a whole new part, is that idea that the shoulders don't want to touch where they are supposed to. But considering the (very!) low cost of this unit, and how firmly I've got the blade locked down due to the improved system of bolts, it's not that big of an actual problem when trying to use the unit. For normal uses, it's a pretty good fix. For abusive type tests, it still mostly works well. (I torture-tested it a bit, after these fixes were implemented: testing it's cutting and flattening ability on the side of a very roughly cut ancient two-by-four. If you angle the unit with your hands, so that the blade starts cutting on one end or the other, first, instead of holding it at 90 degrees to the work piece, I felt that it cut fairly well. even in my torture test.)Somewhere in there, once the tool worked pretty good, I also did the usual tune-up stuff: flattening the back of the iron, and so on.For the price, this is a nice enough tool. Just don't expect it to compete, out of the box or probably even in modified form, with tools that cost five times the price. Now that I know how to fix most of what's not working well, I'm tempted to buy another and tinker with it, too. But before I had figured out how to solve the problems that make it more of a "project" or a "kit," I couldn't have recommended this tool.4Gave it a good twist to back it outNot able to adjust the blade depth because the nut and/or bolt on one of the adjusters is poorly made. I added some oil to see if that would get things moving, but the nut got stuck. Gave it a good twist to back it out, but the whole thread came out of the spokeshave body with the nut stuck in the middle.I'm getting a replacement to see if I just happened to get a dud, but I'd say the QC operation obviously wasn't in when this came off the line. Given the time I had to put in fixing and adjusting my new Stanley block plane, I can see why so many wood workers look for the vintage stuff.1Great ProductI read previous reviews on this product and they had issues with this spokeshave.I was ready to do what others did to improve the problems. Well, the company must have made improvments or quality control got better, because the blade was sharp and the bottom plate was smooth and flat. My son had no problem using this tool for the first time. He had cedar shaving curls all over the place. I am pleased with the product. I could have paid $140 for a Spokeshave at a woodcraft shop. This product is a great bargain.5Inexpensive, but you'll need to spend time tuning this toolI do not use a spokeshave very often, so I was looking for an inexpensive tool that would get the job done. The Stanley Spokeshave was a good choice though I was surprised that the tool arrived in such a poor state. I didn't expect the blade to be sharp, but I did expect it to be flat. It wasn't. Had to spend time flattening the bowed blade and then spend time grinding and polishing the sole of the tool to insure that it was also flat. If your looking for an inexpensive tool and have an hour to tune it up, this would be a good choice. Tool worked great after tuning.3Quality far exceeds expectationsFor $16 (in contrast, Veritas spokeshaves are $100 and Lei Neilsen spokeshaves are $130), I expected nothing from this. Less than nothing. Cheap planes typically have the following problems: warped casting, chunky and uneven paint job, bad ergonomics, dull and thin blade of poor quality steel, warped sole, bad machining/casting in the mouth, non-flat cap iron and/or bed, poor adjustment.This Stanley had almost none of these problems. Unlike my Bailey block plane, which could barely take a shaving out of the box, this one actually worked all right, and I didn't even know what I was doing! Just a bit of chattering, mostly due to trying to take too deep of a cut and having bad technique.I flattened the sole, but it didn't even really require flattening. I shined it up anyway, but I didn't detect any high or low spots. I expected to file the inside of the mouth, but there were no jagged edges. The bottom of the cap iron was flat, though I might scrape off the paint to really make it mirror-smooth. The blade back was almost flat, the bevel was honed enough to take an okay but not awesome cut, and I had it shaving armhair with one minute on the 1000 grit water stone and another minute on the 6000 grit, freehand sharpened.Of course, you can still tell it is a cheap plane. It is a clunky, utilitarian looking tool, unlike the aforementioned expensive options that look like works of art. The blade is on the thin side, and I suspect (due to the ease of sharpening) that it is a low-ish grade of steel that won't hold an edge that well. The blade does say it is made in England, which isn't bad for a $16 tool. The ergonomics are nothing special, and the paint is a bit uneven and overall hideous. You know the paint is there to cover up ugly cast iron, and wouldn't have been needed if it was precision machined and polished.Don't skin the initial tuneup when you get this. You'll be sorry. I don't have a single plane that I didn't have to tune up to some degree. A lot for the cheap ones, just a little for the expensive ones. Don't give this a poor review until you are sure you've tuned it up and are using it properly. Think about the biggest reason that this tool costs so little. How much more would it cost if a skilled craftsman spent an hour or two tuning up every single one of these? Besides the better machining, materials and precision, that's a big part of what you're paying for from Lee Valley or Lie Nielsen.Oh, the adjustment works very nicely. I was confused at first, but the cap iron is screwed down very tight for shipping. Loosen the screw up just enough so that the cap iron can slide out from under it. From now on, use the big handscrew on the cap iron to tighten it down. To adjust, loosen the handscrew and adjust the left and right screws. They independently adjust the left and right sides of the blade - tighten to advance the blade and loosen to retract it. There's a lot of backlash in the adjusters, which is annoying, but most planes have that. Make sure to turn the screws clockwise a bit to take out the backlash once you've reached your desired setting, but not so much you advance the blade again. Tighten down the iron and you're off.Remember to use the bare minimum blade protrusion to get the cut you want. Too thick of a shaving leads to chatter and rough cuts. Always plane with the grain. It seems to work better when you skew the plane - cut with the plane at an angle, with one handle further out than the other. Resharpen as soon as your cuts start getting difficult again. Consider buying an aftermarket blade if you really want to improve the performance without spending a ton, plus if you buy a better spokeshave you can transfer your new blade to it too.Uhhh, I'm out of advice. Good luck, and if you really get a terrible one of these, send it back. Consistency is a big issue with these Chinese-made tools. Mine came out great, but yours might be a worthless trainwreck. And remember, even the best sample of this spokeshave can't hold a candle to a Lie Nielsen. I'm purely reviewing this on its own merits - as a dirt cheap example of its kind that happened to not be as terrible as it rightly should be.4
    STANLEY Hand Planer, SpokeShave, Flat Base (12-951)

    STANLEY Hand Planer, SpokeShave, Flat Base (12-951)

    4.1
    You can't add more than 500 quantity.
    Dhs. 262.00
    Dhs. 262.00
    Dhs. 432.00
    Sold out
    Save 39% (Dhs. 170.00)