The Clifton Bench Planes are both highly attractive and functional tool that aim to give you an accurate and smooth finish. This ensures absolute stability of the Frog, providing a firm and solid surface for the cutting iron, this again rests on a fully machined upper side of the Frog. A lever cap with a brass locking screw secures the blade assembly and enables easy release for sharpening.

The renowned design has a screw mechanism that allows the frog to be adjusted without removing the blade or lever cap, easily allowing the blade to be adjusted relative to the sole to adjust the mouth opening. When used with the extra thick Clifton Cutting Iron and Clifton Two Piece Cap Iron, this design has probably the most rigid and effective clamping mechanism of any Bench plane available.Credit subject to status, UK residents only, Axminster Tool Centre Ltd trading as Axminster Tools acts as a broker and offers finance from a restricted range of finance providers, PayPal Credit is a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH.

The Frog and Frog Seating in the body of these Bench planes is based on the Bedrock design, first seen on early Stanley planes, meaning the seating pad in the body is fully machined flat to mate with an equivalent full face and machined, underside of the Frog. You will appreciate the way this plane, with a toe that is one-third the length of the sole, registers to the work piece, and the authority it provides when planing. As with all Clifton woodworking tools, the No 4 is an accurate and smoothly functioning tool aimed at the discerning cabinet maker and woodworker.It makes short work of preparing sawn timber and the wider 60mm blade covers more ground when flattening boards. The Veritas 5-1/4W varies from the traditional 5-1/4 in various ways, but the two most significant dimensional differences are that the Veritas has a 50 mm (2 inch) wide blade (rather than 44 mm - 1-3/4 inch) and the mouth is 110 mm (4-3/8 inch) back of the nose compared with 89 mm (3-1/2 inch) for the original.

Clifton blades have a reputation as quick to hone whilst producing one of the finest sharp edges available.There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. The cap iron is a one piece design giving rigid clamping and the Frog locating pins and screws are made from polished and ground stainless steel. A thick stainless steel cap iron and a chipbreaker supports the blade against the full length frog for less chatter and tearout. Handles and knobs are of selected rosewood (post-war models are made of beech and late 1990’s models were made of impact resistant resin, or plastic. The Clifton Bench Planes are made from the finest materials: the body and frog are made from accurately machined grey cast iron with their sides and sole fully ground.

The specially shaped lever cap, together with the machined thumb recess on either side of the body, provides both comfort and excellent control when shooting. This ensures absolute stability of the Frog, providing a firm and solid surface for the cutting iron, which again rests on a fully machined upper side of the Frog. These castings are fully stress relieved, a process that removes inherent stresses and ensures that the tool will remain flat and true. After heat treating, the blade is fully surface ground on the top, back, and cutting edge, giving a smooth, flat surface that will take a mirror finish very quickly.Clifton e - No 5 Jack Plane is the "jack of all trades", a mid-sized plane that can be used for smoothing and flattening medium sized timbers.