Silverline Block Plane – an £11 paperweight
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I purchased a Silverline Block Plane online recently. For £11 I thought that it might need some tweaking to make it usable.
However, it would need a lot of grinding of the sole of it to make it usable. The sole was ground down on one side leaving it an 88 degree angle to the sides. Which then also creates the problem that even with the adjuster moved all the way over, the blade sticks out on one side more than the other.
The cost of posting it back to where I purchased it would be almost as much as the price I paid for it. Lesson learned: avoid Silverline products.
I might just try to salvage the parts (and my sanity) and use them to try and make my own block plane.
That is to bad, Paul has said and shown good things with the Silverline #4. I have seen similar issues on the Buck Brothers planes. Most relatively square and flat, enough you just need a little tune up, but every now and then you get one like this. I have no idea how it passes Q&C.
It’s a perfect match for my Silverline carpenter’s square.
Maybe if you only use Silverline products, all the inaccuracies cancel out and you end up with a perfect result! (-: