Grizzly International, which has been selling metal and woodworking machinery since the early 1980s and hand tools for a shorter time, has recently introduced a No. 4 smoothing plane. I own several hand planes, including a No. 7 jointer plane for truing thwart edges or hand-cutting a scarf joint; a No. 5 jack plane, which is a workhorse for stock removal; and a sporty No. 4—little brother of the No. 5 and mostly used for general carpentry and bench work such as smoothing and fitting.