I really appreciate your honesty and opinions.

That was a great follow-up to the battle of the planes.  It’s good to actually hear your opinions on the planes.  You don’t need to apologize for having them.  You viewers don’t have to agree, but it adds to our knowledge base.

This was so good Jamie, loved your insights and the look into your personal perspective.

Great info, amazing lighting Jamie!

The slat wall looks fabulous!

Thanks for the review my friend😉

Will definitely say hello at HandWerks.

Well done! I like how you put out your opinion without ranting on other planes. Almost all of my bench planes are Lie Nielsen and I am extremly happy with them! I have some Veritas planes because there where no other options. F. e. Plow Pland and Rabbet Plane, here in europe vintage Stanley are difficult to get. Talking about "mass produced" planes (yes I know people will got crazy about this word, but it is true) this lineup is the best you'll get. There is nothing wrong with any of these planes. My preference is with Lie Nielsen. I just love them. I had the chance to visit their shop in Maine and I am absolutely convinced about their products (all of them but the saws, there are far away from beeing bad, but IMHO there are better options out there).

Thanks so much for the shoutout! I know you need more video ideas 😂 so you need to do a demo of the method you end up with!

Thanks for comparing all of the smoothers too! I currently just use my veritas low angle jack for everything and I use a cambered higher angle blade for tough grain. Maybe I’ll get a shorter veritas one day!

This was one of my favorite of your videos. really candid and conversational. While I love the stats, I can looks those up. What you did in this video is something I can't easily find. And it's valid and interesting. Most people never shut up with their opinion. We gotta drag it out of you ;) My two cents: I wanted to love the Custom 4 so badly. But I just didn't. Didn't like the shavings getting stuck. Didn't like that it was hard to sight down into the mouth while planing. Didn't like having to use a screwdriver for the lever cap. Plus, I'm impatient and I know myself enough to know that I'm not going to use something that is fiddly. I'm too lazy.  Having said all that, it was CLEARLY a wonderful plane and left a beautiful surface on the wood. I do love the Lie Nielsen bench planes  (their irons are excellent) and their adjustments are simple. Their totes are a bit cramped and I'm a woman! So for a guy I can only imagine how tight it is.  But I do a three finger grip, and so it works out ok. Can't wait to try a Clifton at some point too.  Thanks for your videos. They really help and are fun too! If you don't mind a suggestion, use the names of the plane makers in the title. It will draw more people who search on that in Youtube. When I was looking at buying a Veritas Custom No. 4, I did that exact search. Etc. So throw in Veritas, Lie Nielsen and Clifton and get more views :) Just a thought.

Good video and good advice too. I have tried all the new planes, even the stupidly priced Bridge City ones ( trying to reinvent the wheel I fancy ) and although some of them have been good I see no reason to replace the vintage planes, some of which I have had for fifty plus years, as the benefits are so small. Admitedly, I have over the years tuned my planes, made new totes and knobs and purchased better upgraded irons but at the end of the day they feel some much better in the hand than any of the new guys on the block. I would always encourage woodworkers to buy older planes for a tenth of the price of the new ones and put in the work to tune them and then spending all the money they saved on wood, cos thats more important than pretty new tools.

"Sorry I started talking about metal types". Lol I found that educational.

Hi. About the shaving issue on the veritas I also think the cap iron could be the cause. Before touching it try to change its setup (distance of the edge) to see if it changes smt, if not try to establish it at 75-80° angle, just few passes on a fine stone, it doesn't need to be huge.

I commented to my dad, some years back, "Opinions are like rear ends, every one has one." He, not losing a second responded, "Yes, and some of them stink!" Made me laugh.... I haven't tried a Clifton, and really had not heard of one. My dad gave me his planes, mostly Lie Nielson, which he bought and never used, and that got me side tracked from my lathes..... Thus far, I like the Lie Nielson planes, and the totes fit my hands well. I have big palms. In picking up a number of other planes of different styles, most of them do fit my hands good enough. I do have to make some wood planes, just because. I will look up your Battle of the 4s.

This is why i whant ALL THE PLANES! 😂

One thing that might help with shavings is polishing the chip breaker. The chip breaker's finish of Veritas is not that great. I have buffed them with a bench grinder with a black, green and then white compounds. This helps with that. I learned this from Jim Kingshott.

Veritas planes are loosely based on an ultra premium plane that Stanley sold for a short time. Can't remember the name of them, but there's a video somewhere on YouTube with them featured.

With a fairly extensive collection, my favourite modern planes both looks and function wise are the Veritas, they strike a very good balance for me.  Sometimes you get one that has an odd tolerance, but they are well thought out tools with lots of improvements over their original counterparts.  Light tools are important, I rip into pieces at times with smaller planes to scrub off height quickly.  There is no way one can reasonably use even a 4 1/2 bedrock style continuously for 15min for that kind of work.

Vintage wise, I would say I use a Stanley Bailey  no 4, 5 and 7 (I usually gravitate to type 9 and 15 as they seem to be lighter built) . But actually performance wise, I would be torn between my Woden's and pre-war (real) Records.  They are a bit more precise, not too much weight penalty, and the components are always a hint more premium then.  While I love modern veritas style totes, Woden has gotten it right when it comes to vintage planes.  They look a bit weird on visuals, but are excellent.

What's your opinion on the 'default' No 4 by Veritas (not the custom one)?

Your opinion is valid feel if it’s important to you it would be valid for me