Paul, I've been watching your channel for a bit over a year, and I'v probably seen every video you've produced at least once. I have to say, your wonderful instruction style, obvious love for the topic, and tremendous skill has been both an inspiration, and you've improved my own woodworking skill by miles! I'm at a stage where I prefer a hand tool in many cases where I would have used electric before, and the quality of my projects is far better. Thanks you, sir, for helping me be a better woodworker, and relighting my love for the craft.

Greetings Paul from a student of yours in 2002 in Texas. I use my #78 and I also like my #50.

Nice one - I just bought a 78 a few weeks ago. I understand that Paul makes money on KZfaq, but I still think it’s incredibly generous to share his wisdom with us this way. Thank you very much, Paul and team.

I got one in great shape just few weeks ago! This video could not have been uploaded at a better time, thank you Paul.

Thank you Paul for the explanation of the filleter plane. I have a Sears Craftsman model and have used it only a few times when not using a router for my rebates because I was usually frustrated with how it functioned. Now you have shown me the proper way to set it up. As I move more towards hand tools in my work this plane will be getting more use.

Had one for years and figured out most of it, but of course learned some finer points here. I thought the scribe cutter had the blank side simply for storage; I didn't realize you only used the scribe for cross-grain planing. Also, I didn't realize you're supposed to start on the forward part of the rebate. Thanks for sharing.

That is sooooo weird! I have literally five minutes ago just fitted a replacement fence to an old 78 I picked two weeks ago. I thought, “I really should find out more info on this plane, I have no idea about it...”. Thanks Paul for hearing my psychic cry!

I have that plane. It’s a gift from my neighbor. I didn’t know how to cut in end grain. Thank you for the video.

Thank you for teaching me so much, Paul. I am also a teacher and hope you realize how much we appreciate you sharing your expertise with us. I am restoring my first No. 78, at this time, and I am now much better prepared to use it when I complete the restoration.

Thanks for sharing Paul. Really useful and interesting. Your videos are always a joy to watch. All the best.

Thanks Paul, another great video. I bought one a few weeks back, now I know how to set the iron properly. Cheers

Friday and a Paul Sellers Video! Perfect!

Had a #78 for years, actually 2, one is modern, about 1940’s and one is about 1910. Both work beautifully. Also like my #50 as a quick handy rebater.

The first plane I bought at a second hand shop which started my interest in handtool woodworking :).

Love these planes Paul,as a professional woodworker very often reach for the no 78 ,great for small rebates and usually quicker and easier than a router or spindle moulder,always use mine for making 12mm x 1mm rebates for piano hinges,thanks again

You’ve taught me 80% of my woodworking skills,I thank you paul 👍🏻

Picked up one of these on the side of the road. The guy was set up next to his truck and sold it for $7! Thanks for explaining what this type of plane is for! Looks useful.

I bought one of these at a flea market all the parts were there and after sharpening and a setup I love it as Paul says not essential but it does what it’s intended for beautifully

That is a superb rabbet plane, I have one just like it, a Stanley too. I've used it to make tongues for tongue and groove board joints. The plane does make the job so easy.

thanks for making these, you're always the first person i go to watch when i'm wanting to learn a new tool

Hi Paul, I know this was done a few years ago but I loved it as my dear old Dad left one to me (less a few pieces missing) and I intend to restore his old tools. His was made in Sweden, so, it may be metric. I don't know for sure. I will try Stanley to see if this is so. I want it to be a functioning tool for me to use as well as the nostalgia. My aim is to make a tool box to hold what is left of his tools and to use them. I have some of my own and am trying to get into hand woodworking but with a planer thicknesser, small Aldi bandsaw (at least at first) and an Aldi wood lathe to learn on. He was an amazing carpenter-joiner. He could do anything with anything, a natural craftsman but did not want us two boys to get our hands dirty. But that is exactly what boys wanted to do in our times. I am 74 myself, so you know what I mean. Many thanks for your help and inspirational videos. If I get a chance to visit the old dart, I would very much like to visit you. I am in Brisbane Australia and Dad and his family are from Launceston Tasmania. I know you would love the place and the beautiful wood in that part of the country. Cheerio my friend.

I found a rebate plane very similar to yours (same make, but the guide has two rods holding it in place), and I always wondered what the weird bit in front of the blade did! Brilliant advice, thanks.

Thanks for your allways interesting vidéos!

I bought 2 of these planes off E bay @ 5 months ago. One was in rather poor shape, so I refinished it. Took a while, but well worth it. The other one didn't need repairs and it came with an extra blade. I think it was a pretty sweet deal.

One of my favorite planes! thanks again for the wealth of information!

What a fascinating tool! I like watching that one at work, along with a ploughing plane. Soooo satisfying haha!

I just picked one up from a fella that was closing up his shop. I wasn't really sure what it was all about, but it was the only wood working tool he had in his Automotive shop. So I had to grab it. Glad I did and thanks to Paul I now know how to use it!

Every time Paul demonstrates a tool theres a rush on Ebay 😁

Been looking for a used one fo years. Thanks for adjusting tips

Much quicker, and quieter, than all the trouble of setting up a noisy machine.

I just got a vintage Record version that still has the box and brochure. Excited to use it.

Excellent video and instruction! So useful. I own the Record version of this tool and it benefits by a two post fence attachment and a nice(r) blade advance mechanism. Highly recommended.

excellent catch filling in in the spur cutter 👍

Very interesting. Cheers Paul.

Hi Paul, thanks for this excellent video. I watched it before using my plane for the first time today. Pretty good results, all the better for your information here. Mine is missing the depth stop so the work was a little sloppy. Happy with my first attempt though.

Having purchased one last year, I cannot imagine not having one in my arsenal now.

pura vida paul great review I hope one day use one this in my workshop. I love work with hand tools pura vida

Just picked one up for £5. Awesome, and once sharpened it works like a dream.

Thanks Paul!

Just found a Record 078 very reasonable price. All cleaned up and ready to roll. Thanks for the vid.

I just took mine apart and found a ton of extremely stubborn old shmoo in the recesses for the spur cutter. I’d imagine I’m not the only one, so here’s the tip: I managed to scrape it out with stainless steel dentist utensils. Available on Amazon, and very handy for all kinds of small jobs.

Thanks I just got mine delivered today. 😃

Always a pleasure to see that Mr. Sellers has put out a new video. As ever, very helpful and informative. Best wishes.

I own one of these (the same as what's shown in the video) they are great planes I find it to be a great addition to my tool kit. Thanks for the great video Paul. Long time subscriber here!! 😁

Love mine First came across the 78 when I saw in a boat mag where there used one to do the gains in a lapstrake, or clinker boat

I just found one of these in a old box I picked up who knows when and got it cleaned up, sharpened and tried using. In my experience, paul makes it look to easy; like everything else he does! This video will help get me good with it though and that will be one more thing I can do without noisy and dangerous power tools!

Great information, thank you. Hope sometime in the near future you cover how to use the plane withe the iron in the forward position.

I just started using my Sargent 1080, Stanley 45 clone, I see it does all this. I was chopping out grooves with a chisel before.

Always a pleasure.

Thanks for sharing that

Great timing with the video Paul. I just got lucky and got a 778 on eBay for $43!

I have this plane. It is a new one. I found a few issues with the casting on mine. Not hard to fix but something I think should have been a QC catch. But I know they aren't putting any more had time into them than they can due to cost. I agree with another comment I read that the bull nose part would be interesting to see a demonstration on.

It may be a little odd one out, but it would be awesome to have a detailed video about the Stanley 13-050 Combination Plane. Especially the beading fence is confusing.

Kinda scary! I'm about done cleaning up an old one I bought with a lot of planes. i was curious about how these work, and this video pops up! Thanks, Mr. Sellers for the knowledge!

I’ve been at it 55 years. Can I still learn from your videos? I certainly do. I’ve just got out my Stanley 78 and sharpened the nicker with a diamond slip stone. I can now use it across the grain for the first time in years. One less job for the Bosch router! I had to adjust the side protrusion to match the nicker cut. I also discovered I had a rusty spare without fences with the blade in the forward position. Almost bullnose but not quite. I must have bought it at a junk shop years ago. I’m not sure when that would have a use. Maybe for a stopped rebate

Thanks Paul

As always an excellent video. I struggle somewhat across grain and I believe it is because my spur cutter is not sharp enough, I compensate by using a knife line but would love to see how to sharpen the spur correctly.

Something I've found is to keep the plane as vertical as possible so there is no slope on the groove. (Speaking for experience ;-)) Very lovely tool.

Very nice 👍

They say that really good editing goes unnoticed by the viewer, and I have just realized how good your editing is. Lots of cut ins to closeups all perfectly focused and appearing to be in real time. Very few of the channels I watch do proper editing. They just turn on the camera, and upload the entire thing.

Thank you.

Paul, I love that you have so much knowledge and are willing to share it. I just picked up a #78 and I'm just doing a little clean-up on it. I noticed a hole drilled through the top of the tote. Didn't think much of it until I noticed the same on yours. Clearly manufactured that way. Do you, or another viewer, have any idea what that's for? Or is it just part of the manufacturing process?

I would like to see a video on sharpening that odd shaped iron. I have my grandfather's Stanley and the iron has been worked into a shape like a skew chisel! I have been able to use it to clean up rabbet's made with a dado blade. So, at least it works!

I just bought one of these. It takes a bit of setting up. The blade was not good out of the box. Flattened and sharpened, it all seems to be working now. I need to practice with the thing.... I think I'm going to like it.

Thankyou!

My grandfather, who died when I was 3 years old, had one of these but it's a really unusual one. It's not a Stanley or a Record. It's an 'Anchor' brand plane that was made in Sweden. It doesn't look especially high or low quality but it's still in very good condition. A number of years ago I managed to source a set of depth and fence attachments for it but the threads were not the right ones for the plane and although I did attach them, they were never properly secured and the plane didn't really work properly. I suspect the threads - being Swedish - were metric. By the way, there's another word for these that seems to be unique to Australia (where I'm from). Here they were known as 'rebbet' planes. Similar in pronunciation to the American 'rabbet' but with an 'e' instead of an 'a'.

thanks for the great video, i just picked one up tonight and wanted to ask whats the correct angle for sharpening the blade??

Got one from a clueless flea who thought it was broken for 7$ and love it.

good !!

Would love to see a demo on using the blade in the front slot (bull-nose?) cheers

My late Dad left me his. For some reason I didn't use it much for years. So a revelation when I finally 'discovered' it years later, and found it could do many rebates with half the fuss it took to set up and use an electric router. I've been surprised once or twice by people who don't know what the wee spur cutter is for - or sometimes even that it's there at all.. And if you do get the mouth clogged - on any plane? Buy a cheap dental pick. Works every time.

As always, a top notch video. Could you demonstrate sharpening the scoring blade.

I should've purchased one of these back in the 1990s when they cost less than $100. At least I did purchase a few nice bench planes when they were still new and affordable.

Enjoy your vids. Only thing I would have added is to point out that the nicker is flush with the side of the plane. It's obvious but important not to overlook. Thanks for all you do.

Great video, I was curious, when you were cutting across the end grain is it possible to retract the nicker once the knife line has been astablished

4:20 Mr Seller does not need a ruler. If he says a half inch then it is indeed 1/2".

Have you got any videos showing how to sharpen old angled rebate plane blades and others

Mr. Paul. I don't have this lovely tool so I have to use a router. I would like to have this tool one day.

I have one of those! Now I have a much better understanding of how it should be used - and that little do-dad on the side - I was wondering what that was.

I recently picked one of these up on ebay a couple of weeks before this video was posted in preparation for starting the workbench build. It had some surface rust and I took it apart to clean it up last night and noticed it's the earlier version with no adjustment lever. Paul - do you have any tips for using this earlier model? Presume it's set with a hammer tap?

Thanks for the video Paul(and team). Is there a way to adjust the depth of cut of the knicker? When I tighten the spur it centers itself around the screw and end up protruding a 16th or more. The plane blade ends up not being able to take a shaving unless I really bear down on the front of the plane.

Interesting festool has only recently bought out a tracksww that scores the material before cutting when this has been doing it for generations already!

that trefoil cutter looks like it would be fun to sharpen.

I have a few of these laying around. How would you tune-up one? Same as a Number 4? How do you sharpen that little spur?

I have one but mine is a model 190. It does have the adjustable depth.

Hi Paul, can you talk about the front position for the blade on the 78 plane? I assume it's for getting closer to the finish line when cutting stopped rebates? Love your channel, thanks.

Thank you! Just getting started and your instruction is amazing. Trying to decide between the stanley 78 and the record 778 with the two rods. Is there any advantage to the two rod system in practice? The stanley 78 that I have tried has a fence that seems to wiggle a bit but the pivot point is quite near the blade so perhaps it doesn't matter? Any thoughts would be appreciated from yourself or the community at large here. Thank you in advance.

Thank you Paul I purchased one of these off EBay, have you done a video on how to sharpen the spurs

Is there a chance that you can make a tutorial about how to sharpen it?

Paul, Do you have an opinion on the later (778) version of this plane, which offers the twin guide bars for a more rigid fence,and has a screw mechanism for depth of cut adjustment? I always found it was too easy to accidentally knock the pivot lever out of setting on the 78 model.

I’m curious... I know with a traditional wooden moving fillister it is possible to do simple panel raising by cutting a rebate and then sliding the fence out slightly. Can the 78 be employed in this fashion as well?

Any idea what the vertical hole in the fence is for? The 778 doesn't have it but then again it has double spacing rods to hold the fence horizontal.

Thanks, very nice video! I've recently gotten myself a 78 without the depth adjustment lever. I suppose it's an older one. Should I try hammer-adjusting it?

Excellent video! How do you use the plane when the you need to cut a rabbit against the grain (not a cross-cut)? Every time I try it, it rips (up) the wood. It's like a need a "left-sided" fillister plane. BTW, I'm using a Record version.

Hello Paul, I like Your Channel. I search for my Stanley 55 Kombi-Plane the little Crosscutter. On my Plane are both to short. Do You know where can I buy this??? Trank You!

What's the best way to sharpen the spur?

Can you still use it if you don't have the fence or the depth stop?

I wish Paul had mentioned the bullnose feature on the other cutting position of the plane . There are two positions for the blade to be inserted into.

I struggled with this tool for so long. I thought it was junk and ill-designed. Then Paul showed me my plane irons were not and have never been "sharp." Now this plane takes front and center.

Ray Bartlett has a video that shows a modification to the cap iron to prevent the clogging up of the mouth.