Best Hand Plane For The Money. The Senkichi Wood Block Plane is our pick as the best block plane for the money. GreatNeck C4 Bench-Jack Plane.
In terms of quality and craftsmanship this manual hand planer defies its price. Best when used to give finishing touches. Its 55 inches long and a little over 2 inches wide.
Wooden planes are also usually the most affordable bench planes.
The advantage to this solution is that you start out with a good quality block plane but can easily switch blades to turn it into a small smoothing plane. Woodstock D3831 Adjustable Block Plane. The extra heft helps it to keep going when a lighter plane would get bogged. A high-powered lightweight tool that planes up to 3-14 inches wide and 332 inches deep in a single pass.