The 60 1/2 was my first plane as a trim carpenter and it remains my favorite plane.

Hi Dave, New Subscriber. I really appreciate your video on the tuning of a Stanley 60 1/2. I'm near 70 and I finally get my own woodshop! I found a 6 pieces set of original Record Marple set of 6 chisels that turned out to be almost brand new on Offerup for $30. Since I did that I thought I'd stick with the Record Marples (Pre Irwin) for the planers. One that I got was a Record  60 1/2 and I was excited and took it apart and couldn't put it back together again. Thank God for your video. lol  I also picked up a Record #4 and #5.  I will watching more of your videos to become a little more planer savoy. Thank You

a pleasure to watch.. :) glad to have found your channel!

Dave Ty for this vid. Learned a lot to enhance the twinkling of my 60. 1\2 I found when I was the same age 😉13 yrs later it’s still my favorite.👍😇🇺🇸

That's the way to do it!

Great work on the plane and extremely well done video.

Wow really nice work!

Always learn so much from your process. Thanks so much for sharing. Greatly appreciated.

I like the idea of cleaning and adding paste wax after lapping the plane. Makes perfect sense but I’ve never seen anybody else do it.

Nice job thanks for sharing your skill.

Very nice. I’ve had one for years. It’s a worker, but only until recently I began using it often. So, I have taken an interest in really learning how to tune it up and get the most out of it. This was very helpful. Other YouTubers look down on this model.

Excellent- very similar to what I would do & have done.  I was getting ready to comment about easing the edges.  My main user I got in the '70s

Hi Dave. John from Arizona

I thoroughly enjoyed watching this video. Nice job.

Thank you!  Just got hold of one of these and need to fettle it, this video will help a lot, so thank you… ✅ 👏🏻

Awesome!

Great job

Great job getting that awesome little plane ready for action.

Nice job Dave!

Thanks Dave, nice tune up, the shavings speak for themselves !
I realised watching this my 1980s Stanley UK 60 1/2 has a threaded rod braised onto the sliding mouth plate and the brass knob is female rather than male, not a problem till you knock it off the bench and the braising fails. Luckily I was able to repair it, but it's not so pretty now, still works well though and that's the main thing !