By Tom Strader Plane making in Scotland was an honorable profession and passed down through generations. These plow, or plough planes are all Wedge […]
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Sargent Transitional type Study
Type 1 1891-1901 Type 2 1902-1909 Type 3 1910-1918 Type 4 1919 end of production (1941) Much of the dates are Referenced from or David […]
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The Stanley Cordovan Era
Stanley Home– Type 1 – Type 2 – Type 3 – Type 4 – Type 5 – Type 6 – Type 7 – Type 8 […]
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Restoration of Japanned Plow Planes – By Don Bosse.
By Don Bosse. The best advice I can give buy the best tool you can afford, the less you have to do the better, […]
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The Elusive Stanley Type 3.
Thanks to Joyce and Eric Robinson for the images. Check out their The Vintage Tool Shoppe in Fremont, New Hampshire or New Hampshire Plane Parts […]
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Mitre Plane Restoration By RS Woodworks Part 2
Authored By: – RS Woodworks <–Back to Part 1 Part 3 –> So now that the plane is cleaned, and the sole and right […]
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Authored By: – RS Woodworks Part 2 –> Part 3 –> With having finished my shooting board, I decided to restore this mitreplane to use […]
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The Davis L & T Smoother
According to PTAMPIA The Davis Level and Tool Co. was around from 1867 to 1892. This plane was patented in 1875 (Patent no. 167,311). This […]
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Roger K. Smith’s 2010 calendar
I’ve got several of these prints framed in my office. As usual some great information from Roger, and cool pictures to boot. Above: Center Wheel […]
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A “Sargent made Dunlap”–Chip Breakers-Cutters and Hock
This Dunlap #408 came to me in a lot of other planes, so being a bit of a Sargent fanatic, I decided to see what […]
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