Veritas Plow Plane...Opinions?

[Russell Sansom]

I second the general sentiment here. I've been around the circle with the various options and the little Veritas plow was be best of the bunch. I still pull out the Stanley #45 rather often, but that's because I'm preserving the Veritas's sharpness and saving its settings. If I had to part with one, I'd probably give up the Stanley #45 and figure out other ways to cut tongues and grooves.

[John A. Callaway]

I have the left handed version...and all the non-metric blades... Love it. certainly a well made tool.

[Michael Titus]

I have it, it's probably my favorite hand tool. I don't use it as often as I would like -- guess I just need to build more projects that contain drawers.

[Andrew Gibson]

I have a Stanley #50... an older one with no depth adjustment. I use it quite often. I got the replacement blades available, and I find it nice to have the metric sized blades, because... most of the sheet goods available the the borg are metric.

only problem is I paid quite a bit more to get a full complement of blades for it then I paid for the plane itself.

[Frank Carnevale]

Thats a lot of love for this plane! Thanks all for your experiences and opinions...I am sold

[Graham Hughes (CA)]

The great thing about the Veritas plow is that the fence is fantastic. The sad thing is that the depth stop won't stay there; a common failing of all friction based depth stops, in my experience. I was quite happy with mine apart from the depth stop issue until I got a nice wedge arm woodie, which is what I use now.

[Tony Shea]

It seems like the depth stop issue would be an easy fix with some coarse sandpaper. I've had similar issues with the fence on the large rabbet plane by Veritas and had to rough up the fence rods to get the collets to really grab. I've never had the fence move since.

I also would really like to pick up that small plow. Trouble is that most the grooves I make need to be stopped and this tool just doesn't work well in that situation. There are times that I need full length grooves and have thought about just making my own grooving planes. We shall see though as the Veritas sure does get great reveiws.

[Chris Griggs]

It seems like the depth stop issue would be an easy fix with some coarse sandpaper. I've had similar issues with the fence on the large rabbet plane by Veritas and had to rough up the fence rods to get the collets to really grab. I've never had the fence move since.

I also would really like to pick up that small plow. Trouble is that most the grooves I make need to be stopped and this tool just doesn't work well in that situation. There are times that I need full length grooves and have thought about just making my own grooving planes. We shall see though as the Veritas sure does get great reveiws.

I've have, occasionally, had issues with the depth stop moving on my LV skew rabbet. Typically though it's because I pushing down harder than is necessary. If I find myself doing this I will wax the sole, fence and depth stop surface that contact the wood. Because this makes the plane easier to push and easier to control I find that I then use less downward force and don't move the fence or the depth stop. The bigger issue I've had with the depth stop is the bolt that locks it into place often sticks once its been tightened - I often need to get a pliers to loosen it even though I have only tightened it with finger pressure.

However, this is a minimal issue - I don't have the LV plow, but do have the skew rabbet and large router. Veritas did a fantastic job designing their joinery planes, and I'm sure the plow is excellent.