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We pretty much exclusively recommend the no 4 Bailey plane as the best starting point as 95% of all planing can be done with it. We tend to favour the old Stanley & Record etc. Bailey pattern planes over the newer Bedrock patterns as they are lighter and easier to handle for many tasks. That and you can get a whole range of second hand planes for the price of one new premium plane. Here are some blogs you may find useful
Plane Choice and Bevel Up Planes:
https://paulsellers.com/2015/04/paul-long-plane-bevel-up-bevel-down-part-i
https://paulsellers.com/2015/05/paul-long-plane-bevel-up-bevel-down-part-ii
https://paulsellers.com/2013/06/which-plane-bevel-up-first-or-bevel-down
For those who are interested, the following posts below give details on what to look for when buying a Bailey bench plane second hand. We normally go for pre 70s planes as they were built to a higher standard and had wooden handles. The wooden handles are the way to tell, although it can be difficult to see from photos and a lot of the early plastic handle models work just fine. Other than that we don’t particularly pay attention to the changes that happened through the years:
https://paulsellers.com/2012/09/buying-good-tools-cheap-smoothing-planes
https://paulsellers.com/2011/06/buying-bench-planes-on-ebay
Here are a few blog posts where Paul talks about which tools to get. He also covered this in detail in his latest book on Essential Woodworking Handtools:
This older blog post lists the tools that Paul recommends getting over time.
http://paulsellers.com/2011/12/my-essential-tools
Here are the first 10 to get:
http://paulsellers.com/2014/05/questions-answered-ten-hand-tools-three-joints
And here are some blog post on what to look out for:
http://paulsellers.com/?s=My+minimalist+tool+list
https://paulsellers.com/tag/buying-good-tools-cheap/?orderby=&order=asc
All the best with your equipping.
Phil
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