Clifton planes canada. Thomas flinn produces the clifton planes. Hand planes for sale at woodcraft. Preston was bought out during the great depression by the company that became record. Clifton planes have become a recent part of the thomas flinn co.
The clifton bench planes are the best of british. Shop now or call 1 800 225 1153. The largest selection of woodworking hand planers. Nielsen veritas woodriver and more.
These planes have great weight which means the plane does the work for you. Product range making us now the last traditional saw and plane manufacturers in the uk august 2014. This impressive clifton smoothing plane incorporates the design of the bedrock frog and frog seating pad a rigid cap iron a ground flat sole within the british standard of 0075mm 0003 beautiful walnut rear handle and front knob and finished with a graphite grey finish. The clifton line of shoulder planes are the direct descendants of the legendary preston planes of old.
We are proud to continue such high quality plane making and you will have many years of joy from your clifton plane. 2015 a brown clifton cardboard box is used. Ideal for the cabinet maker and discerning woodworker both amateur and professional. The clifton 4 plane news updates.
Later record passed the designs on to clico tooling who later sold out to thomas flinn. The clifton number 5 12 is one of the rarer sizes of traditional stanley planes and a recent re introduction by clifton. Always buy the best you can afford while cheap planes can be fettled leigh or clifton are dam near perfect out of the box i love both but dont like clifton sslt cap iron prefer asingle solid one but hey thats just. Made in sheffield clifton planes are beautifully engineered tools with a lineage that stretches back through clico record c j hampton woden and back to edward preston sons of birmingham clifton is truly the final distillation of british handplane making expertise.
These planes are ready to use from the box and do not need hours of flattening and fettling to make them fit for use though we would always recommend a quick hone. Having said that i still think that the clifton feels better in the hand. A clifton 4 smoothing plane. Thomas flinn co flying the.