 This is an introduction to Bench Plains by the Small Workshop Guy, one of our three-minute overview series. Hola woodworkers, Paul Carlson here. As we said in the introduction, we're going to talk about planes today, basically for beginners, very high level, not a lot of detail, but we obviously link you to more detailed presentations. So look for those links down below. The first plane you want to get is not a bench plane, but actually a block plane, and that's a very handy one-handed little device. It's lower angle. It's designed to work on the end cut of boards. It's also designed to put a nice camper on the edge of a board or to soften the edge and many other uses, and it's the least expensive of all of the planes running anywhere from $30 at the bottom end to $100, $120, and even more. The second plane you want to get, your workhorse, your jack of all trades, is your jack plane. This is a number five, and it's, or a number five and a half. The difference between the five and a half and the five is the five and a half is wider, and therefore the blade is wider, and therefore it's heavier, and so it's used for faster cutting and so forth. So the five and the five and a half are your essential tool in your plane toolkit. Next, when you're ready to add more planes, you would want to get the number four or the four and a half smoothing plane, and then when you really flesh with cash, because these monsters are expensive, you step up and get your number seven or your number eight. Number eight again is wider, heavier, but this is pretty heavy already. I don't know if I would go beyond the number seven. So the order you use these, when you're doing your work, is you use the number five to get the board kind of ready to a great extent. That's your jack plane. Then you go to your number seven, which is your jointer, and to get it level over a long space, and then you really want to get it nice and smooth. You go to your number four smoothing plane, or four and a half. So that'll get you started. The link's down below to much more extended presentations, but we hope you enjoyed having at least an introductory overview. Subscribe, give us a like if you thought this was helpful, and small workshop guy signing off.