Came in the mail today

Lovely, ain't it?   And, this was it's best side..

Ah..yeah.  Well, this MIGHT take a bit.   Found a spider's nest in the frog.    Didn't find anything broken.   Found a "Whale  Tail" though..

Got all the rust, most of the gray primer paint, and the spider nest cleaned off...found some orange paint...

Well, I missed some of the gray paint.  Lever cap was nickle plated...at one time.    gave the base a coat of black paint where it needed it.   Put this old Jack plane back together..

iron is sharp, but it has a camber, ala Schwarz.  Sole even cleaned up nicely...

Guess it wasn't so ugly after all...

Changing your nickname from "Bandit" to "Miracle Worker"!!! 

You had me worried Lew.  I thought you had a picture of Fred Wilson.   Cool plane though!

 

You simply need to realize that nothing ugly comes out of the beautiful state of Georgia. It was just in costume. Looks great. I always enjoy seeing you bring life back into those planes.

Apparently, I seem to have "won" a Stanley No. 7c type 10......over at Cambridge, OH......looks almost as bad as that old No.5c....

 

It will need to have a rear handle, and the brass nut for it scrounged up.    The rest of the clean up might take an hour or two....

 

Need to play "catch-up" around here..Seems I have found a few other items to clean up.. maybe later this week?

Again, nice restoration Steve. You sure get them done faster than I do. But hey, you are retired now.