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product_id: 48224484
title: "No.6 Fore Plane – Precision Machined Cast Iron Wood Planer Hand Tool for Hard & Soft Wood, Stock Removal, Edge Truing & Board Levelling"
brand: "faithfull"
price: "$387.53"
currency: USD
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 11
category: "Faithfull"
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# Engineered for both hard & soft wood, perfect for stock removal & edge truing 60mm wide cutter with brass adjustment nut for exact depth control Precision-machined cast iron body for ultimate stability No.6 Fore Plane – Precision Machined Cast Iron Wood Planer Hand Tool for Hard & Soft Wood, Stock Removal, Edge Truing & Board Levelling

**Brand:** faithfull
**Price:** $387.53
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🪚 Master the art of flawless wood prep with precision and power.

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** No.6 Fore Plane – Precision Machined Cast Iron Wood Planer Hand Tool for Hard & Soft Wood, Stock Removal, Edge Truing & Board Levelling by faithfull
- **How much does it cost?** $387.53 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ec](https://www.desertcart.ec/products/48224484-no-6-fore-plane-precision-machined-cast-iron-wood-planer)

## Best For

- faithfull enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted faithfull brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Effortless Precision:** Wide 60mm cutter with brass adjustment nut lets you dial in exact depth for smooth, consistent stock removal.
- • **No More Blade Judder:** Machined blade seatings and brass locking screw lock the blade tight for vibration-free, controlled planing.
- • **Rock-Solid Stability:** Precision-machined cast iron base ensures flatness and squareness for flawless planing every time.
- • **Comfort Meets Control:** Ergonomic wooden handles and guidance knobs reduce fatigue during long sessions, keeping you in command.
- • **Built to Last with Confidence:** Backed by a 5-year manufacturer’s guarantee, this fore plane is your reliable partner for all timber prep tasks.

## Overview

The Faithfull No.6 Fore Plane is a heavy-duty, precision-machined cast iron hand tool designed for professional-grade woodworking. Featuring a 60mm wide cutter with brass adjustment for exact depth control, it excels at stock removal, edge truing, and board levelling on both hard and soft woods. Its stable, flat base and secure blade seating eliminate judder for smooth, consistent planing. Ergonomic wooden handles ensure comfort during extended use. Durable and reliable, it comes with a 5-year guarantee, making it an essential tool for serious carpenters and woodworking enthusiasts.

## Description

The Faithfull No.6 Fore Plane is a high-quality traditional bench plane built for strength, control and precision in woodworking and carpentry. Designed specifically for stock removal, truing long edges and levelling wide boards, this cast iron hand tool is suitable for both hard and soft woods and is ideal for preparing timber surfaces before finishing. Built with a robust grey cast iron body, this No.6 fore plane offers superior stability and cutting performance over longer material lengths. Its precision-machined base and sides ensure flatness and squareness, critical for straightening edges and smoothing broad surfaces with accuracy. The finely tuned blade seating eliminates movement and blade judder, delivering consistent results when working across uneven or rough timber. A solid brass locking screw keeps the blade assembly securely in place and allows for easy removal when sharpening is needed. (Note: blade must be sharpened before initial use.) The extra-long sole and wide cutter make this plane ideal for removing high spots, jointing edges and flattening large panels before progressing to finer finishing tools. Equipped with a solid brass blade adjustment nut, the cutting depth can be precisely set for aggressive stock removal or more refined truing passes. Shaped wooden handles and guidance knobs provide comfort and control during extended use, helping to maintain accuracy over larger surface areas with less fatigue. The Faithfull No.6 Fore Plane is a durable, reliable and essential addition to any woodworking toolkit, perfect for board levelling, edge jointing, panel flattening, and early-stage timber preparation. A combination of classic design and modern machining, delivering clean, consistent results every time. Cutter Width: 60mm. Overall Length: 460mm

Review: Solid, hefty, set it up to suit, good for the money and I expect it will last... - This is a big plane and it's heavy - it feels really solid and I got it because it wasn't a lot of money for a longer plane than my No. 4 to do a particular job with no expectations one way or another. Quite honestly, I'm very pleased, it's not ridiculously bad out of the box (if you're desperate like I was) and as long as you're not expecting it to do finishing work because that's not what it does. If you need to flatten some big areas, you might need to look at a couple of feet of Jointer Plane as well or instead, but I'm quite pleased with it and am enjoying using it for this kind of work. I got it initially for one job - to do some long panel rough to smooth-ish primary work, followed up by my Stanley Sweetheart no. 4 doing the finishing. So yes, it needed some honest setting up - how far and how obsessive is down to your own level of Crazy Woodworking Madman and the demands of the job you're doing, but giving the whole thing a strip down, a nice sharpen on the stone with regular honing oil, a ride on the strop to final polish, an alignment check for the body and a scrub with fine grit paper/0000 wire wool for another bit of a polish and a wax buffing (so I'm odd like that, sue me), sorted in a pleasantly spent hour or so at the workbench. This got me to a point that's certainly good enough for a DIY'er with reasonable need and use who's not too far along the aforementioned Crazy Woodworking Madman scale. Feels like it will last plenty long enough as long as I don't do something stupid like drop it or wreck the blade and mounting mechanism through being dim.
Review: Works very well - after setup - I got this for flattening and jointing boards. It works well for that. I expected some setup as this is a very cheap plane. It took over an hour with 120 grit carbide paper to get the back of the iron flat (roughly first 15mm closest to the edge) due to some deep depressions. The bevel has been ground on a fairly large diameter wheel but that took much less time to sort and get to a polish. Now that's sorted I'm getting some lovely shavings. The sole was flat when it arrived which is something I wasn't expecting. Overall very happy with it, just expect to have to put some time into initial setup to get the best out of it, unless you get very lucky. I have a couple of other Faithfull planes (a block and a no.4 which I've converted to a scrub), so I knew what to expect both out of the box and after a bit of work.

## Features

- High-Quality Cast Iron Body – Crafted from durable grey cast iron and precision-machined to tight tolerances for strength and stability. The finely ground base and sides ensure flatness and squareness for accurate planing on both hard and soft woods, ideal for stock removal, edge truing and board levelling.
- No Blade Movement – Machined seatings eliminate blade judder, providing a smooth and controlled planing experience. A brass locking screw secures the blade assembly and allows easy removal for sharpening. NOTE: Blade will require honing before use.
- Wide Cutter with Easy Adjustment – Designed with a 60mm cutter and equipped with a solid brass blade adjustment nut for precise control over depth and alignment. Perfect for heavy stock removal and accurate truing over long surfaces.
- Comfortable Use – Fitted with shaped wooden handles and guidance knobs to maximise user comfort and control during prolonged use. Ideal for early-stage timber preparation, edge jointing and levelling large boards.
- Faithfull 5 Year Manufacturers Guarantee – Engineered for optimal performance on both hard and soft woods, the Faithfull No.6 Fore Plane is perfect for flattening panels, jointing edges and preparing rough timber with confidence and accuracy.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B002SHR7PE |
| Batteries Required? | No |
| Batteries included? | No |
| Best Sellers Rank | 164,554 in DIY & Tools ( See Top 100 in DIY & Tools ) 29 in Block Planes |
| Colour | Silver|black |
| Customer Reviews | 4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars (195) |
| Date First Available | 1 May 2007 |
| Included Components | No.6 Fore Plane (2.3/8in) |
| Item Package Quantity | 1 |
| Item Weight | 3.47 kg |
| Item model number | FAIPLANE6 |
| Manufacturer | Faithfull |
| Material | Cast Iron |
| Part Number | FAIPLANE6 |
| Power Source | Hand Powered |
| Product Dimensions | 47.8 x 15.4 x 7.4 cm; 3.47 kg |
| Style | Single |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Faithfull
- **Colour:** Silver|black
- **Item weight:** 3.47 Kilograms
- **Material:** Cast Iron
- **Product dimensions:** 10L x 10W x 10H millimetres

## Images

![No.6 Fore Plane – Precision Machined Cast Iron Wood Planer Hand Tool for Hard & Soft Wood, Stock Removal, Edge Truing & Board Levelling - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61kB-QcQ6jL.jpg)

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Solid, hefty, set it up to suit, good for the money and I expect it will last...
*by M***V on 30 May 2021*

This is a big plane and it's heavy - it feels really solid and I got it because it wasn't a lot of money for a longer plane than my No. 4 to do a particular job with no expectations one way or another. Quite honestly, I'm very pleased, it's not ridiculously bad out of the box (if you're desperate like I was) and as long as you're not expecting it to do finishing work because that's not what it does. If you need to flatten some big areas, you might need to look at a couple of feet of Jointer Plane as well or instead, but I'm quite pleased with it and am enjoying using it for this kind of work. I got it initially for one job - to do some long panel rough to smooth-ish primary work, followed up by my Stanley Sweetheart no. 4 doing the finishing. So yes, it needed some honest setting up - how far and how obsessive is down to your own level of Crazy Woodworking Madman and the demands of the job you're doing, but giving the whole thing a strip down, a nice sharpen on the stone with regular honing oil, a ride on the strop to final polish, an alignment check for the body and a scrub with fine grit paper/0000 wire wool for another bit of a polish and a wax buffing (so I'm odd like that, sue me), sorted in a pleasantly spent hour or so at the workbench. This got me to a point that's certainly good enough for a DIY'er with reasonable need and use who's not too far along the aforementioned Crazy Woodworking Madman scale. Feels like it will last plenty long enough as long as I don't do something stupid like drop it or wreck the blade and mounting mechanism through being dim.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Works very well - after setup
*by D***O on 27 December 2023*

I got this for flattening and jointing boards. It works well for that. I expected some setup as this is a very cheap plane. It took over an hour with 120 grit carbide paper to get the back of the iron flat (roughly first 15mm closest to the edge) due to some deep depressions. The bevel has been ground on a fairly large diameter wheel but that took much less time to sort and get to a polish. Now that's sorted I'm getting some lovely shavings. The sole was flat when it arrived which is something I wasn't expecting. Overall very happy with it, just expect to have to put some time into initial setup to get the best out of it, unless you get very lucky. I have a couple of other Faithfull planes (a block and a no.4 which I've converted to a scrub), so I knew what to expect both out of the box and after a bit of work.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good for a start.
*by M***Y on 22 November 2020*

This is a replacement for another brand number 5 plane that had to be returned. I am under no illusions that this was goingto be a perfect plane, but for £40 I am happy to let this be something I can experiment with. Structurally the main casting of the sole is substantial and sturdy. The sole is dead flat along its length and across its width which is good. The casting is not 90° though. They are perhaps a degree or 2 shy of square, but at this early stage of my woodworking development, its no biggy. Mechanism seems to function as it should, frog is adjustable (which is good, coz it was a mile out when it came) and as in the pictures, I did get good, if thick full width shavings of meranti wood. 2 other minor things. As in the picture the chipbreaker was not evenly ground and the edge was out of square, as was the iron; but nothing that half an hour over a waterstone couldn't heal. So, the last pic shows a shaving of redwood as fine as I could get it, which was 0.002", 2 thousands of an inch thick. Which isn't too bad. So, in general I am happy with what I have. The time will come when better, more refined planes start calling to me, but at this initial stage, this is a useful plane that makes me happy when I'm using it. 40 quid? Bargain.

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