Reddit reviews Silverline 633569 Block Plane No. 2 178 x 41mm
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Fine quality grey iron castingAdjustable mouth for coarse or fine workBrass adjustment screwsFor end grain work and fine finishingSuitable for model makers, craft applications and light-duty jobs
This is the problem with the antique Stanley cult: it convinces newbies that their only realistic options for planes are rusty garbage or million-dollar Lie-Nielsens. It's complete bullshit, especially for things with as few moving parts as block planes. There is very nearly no such thing as a block plane that's complete crap.
My main block plane, and the block plane we've used to teach well over a hundred new cabinetmakers, is $19 new on Amazon, and the only work it needs out of the box is a quick sharpen. You can spend five times that on a new Veritas or ten times that on a Lie-Nielsen, or even just twice that on an ancient piece of junk you'll need a three days to get functional (and that probably won't even have a lateral adjustment lever), but there's absolutely no reason to.
Yes, the Silverline won't get your dick hard and isn't the kind of plane you can conspicuously leave in the frame of your Youtube videos to let viewers know you're better than them, but if you're about using planes instead of jerking off to them, it's a perfectly good choice.
The extant high-end brands for planes are Lie-Nielsen (US), Veritas (Canada), and Clifton (UK). Of those, Veritas is the least absurdly overpriced, but also the ugliest. Don't buy any of these brands for your first planes, though.
It's traditional to buy second-hand Stanleys, spend days or weeks trying to restore them, and then give up and buy something else. These days there are plenty of Ebayers restoring them for you, though, and they're worth the extra money. Most of them are based in the UK, even.
Don't overspend on a block plane or a spokeshave; they have relatively few moving parts and the difference between the worst on the market and the best is much smaller than it is for most other tools. This is the block plane we give to our students, and the one I use most often myself; it's literally less than a tenth of the cost of the Lie-Nielsen equivalent, but not meaningfully a worse plane.
Also, you may have more luck on /r/handtools.