All the way from Maryland, mind you.   Not counting S&H, it was just under a 10spot..Not only was there a bit of rust....someone had given it a Coppertone Finish..

Hmmm...yeah.  Them handles were a plastic of some sort.   Kind of purple on the inside.  Lever cap is a coppertone paint.  Sole looked just as...messy

Lovely?   Welll, now. I suppose I could wander down and see if the rehab center is open today.....

Ok:  Flattened the sole.  iron needed it's back flattened as well.   Tuned the chipbreaker.   Those handles?   Traded them out for some wood ones.   The Yorkie Dunlap now has the plastic handles.  Iron was reground to 25degrees or so...then hand sharpened through 2.5K grit.   After that is, I had straightened the edge.   Had the infamous reverse camber.    The corners stuck out more than the center.   I removed what coppertone paint that I could.   What should have been black is now black.    lever cap polished up.  Bolts cleaned up.   face of the frog was sanded flatter.   Underside of lever cap WAS a rough casting...not anymore.   gave this THING a test run on some wide pine...

Not too bad.   Note the "new" handles?   Frog did have a frog adjust bolt.   Wheel is plated steel.  A few more looks..

Front porch looking better?

Not too bad looking?  It did make a nice wispy pile of wide shavings, too...

Seems to be a Stanley type 20 No.4 smooth plane.  Might be right before the Maroon painted ones showed up.   Still has the Stanley lateral lever.   Might be a keeper?

I see a bigger tool box in your future!

And to think....I have a Stanley #5c coming in the mail tomorrow....almost as bad.   Might take longer than an hour and a half to do.....

 

I actually NOW have two #4 sized planes in the shop.   A Millers Falls No. 9 and this newer stanley #4.    getting too many #3 sized planes...may have to thin that herd down a bit..

 

There is one more in theline-up.....front knob is an old sewing thread spool.    IF I luck out and win that one....I will see about losing that spool..

You are certainly the fastest at the 12 step rehab I have ever seen with a plane. Man that went from junk to hunk quick. 

Love to see those curly thin strips. 

Great rehab Master Steve!