The Stanley No.40 is a scrub plane — a specialist tool for aggressive rough stock removal across the grain or diagonally. The narrow cambered iron leaves characteristic scallops indicating how much wood has been removed.
Short cast iron body with a narrow heavily cambered iron. Simpler construction without the standard Bailey adjustment system.
Rapid rough stock removal before jack plane work. Favoured for quickly taming twisted or badly uneven timber.
This page documents the canonical Stanley No.40.
