"It followed me home, can I keep it?"

When last seen, this was screw to an Oak plank, and hung as a coat hook....tag said "Dowel Cutter" $32.50

Plus sales tax.  Got rid of the plank,....meh..

Had some issues going on....Got rid of the "coat hooks"  , easy-out the broken bolt.   Ordered the depth adjuster wheel ( $20, ebay) and cleaned things up a bit..

Easy-out wasn't....iron needs a lot of work..

Sole is flat, and cleaned up..

Tool drawer, I needed a wrench, and a tap..

1/4" x 20.  Have since bought a new thumbscrew at Lowes....1/4" x 20 x 3/4" long.   will need to grind a point on it's end.   About them handles?   had some "spare" knobs, with bolts, had to find 2 that looked like they matched each other...

Close enough?   Plane is a Stanley No. 71-1/2,  patent date is 10-29-01.....1901, that is.

Think I can keep it?

It's a keeper!

Nice, but for those like me who don't know this.  What is it and what does it do?

It's a router plane...I'd love to have one. Guess I'll have to keep looking()...and may whoever turned that into a coat hanger burn in Hades along with those who drill holes in the sole of their bench planes.

Haven't seen your truly brand new plane.  Don't want to use it and get a scratch on it?

Thanks, Steven, for salvaging and saving a wonderful tool.  I have yet to acquire one, but I'm still looking.  Who knows, I may get a deal yet!

 

Fred, I totally agree.  I'll help stoke the fire.   Naw, I think my grannie already has that job.  

27 minutes ago, HandyDan said:

Haven't seen your truly brand new plane.  Don't want to use it and get a scratch on it?

It has been in use...just a might big for what I'd been working on.....been using it more as a scrub plane....and to level out rough sawn lumber....

Note: This is what it looked like, when I bought it..

Called a Dowel Cutter...

Been watching this for almost a year....3 block walk from my house.....

A small digression:  there used to be member on this forum who built small handplanes.  I can't remember his name and I am wondering how he is.  

Nice grab!  I bought the “towel hanger” cousin to this one a year or so back.   It was screwed to a barn board.  It set me back 28 bucks and all of the parts were present but stuck.  Took a little work to get everything free and sent that one to a new home.  

Nice save. Mine is a bit newer and has the the fence with it. There was a piece broken that seems to be broken on all I have seen , just do not remember now what. I had to get a new blade or should I say a different size but it works well. It is a #71 and it may be that bridge in front that is broken off.

Ok, we gaining on it...

Handles  installed.   Iron is now as sharp as I can get....and it's edge is even straight.  

$0.45 Thumbscrew....end has been ground to a point.    Wheel gets here, Thursday.

 

Test track?

Knifed the lines, then used a backsaw....results?

And a flat bottom..

Been doing a bit of grinding, today...

Trying to turn this...

Into a 3/8" wide cutter....about 1/2 way done.....the 1/2" one is more like 0.475" wide....

Might just be a keeper....

I think I can turn some nice handles for that 

On 1/12/2020 at 8:52 PM, FlGatorwood said:

A small digression:  there used to be member on this forum who built small handplanes.  I can't remember his name and I am wondering how he is.  

That would be Herb, alias "Dadio". He's on here periodically, but doesn't post much any more.

John

Edited January 16, 20206 yr by HARO50

Rehab complete.  adjuster wheel is cleaned up, and installed

Might be a keeper...

Newman in for the SCORE!

Great save & rehab Steven.  I had to find a video to see how it is used as I don't think I've ever seen one before.

Roh kay, raggy...Since I now have a better grinder wheel on the grinder...decided to finish working of the 3/8" cutter from an allen wrench...

 

had to get a cup of water...had to shorten the length a bit..

As it was a bit too tall, a case of grind and dunk, grind and dunk...Once it was the right length, and the end rounded over...then a Dremel with both a cutting wheel, and a grinding wheel the right size to make the notch...Two cuts to define the notch, then the wheel to make and level the notch..test fit?

And, we have a 0.380" wide cutter.   Look just above the left knob, you'll see a track made by this cutter.

 

Now..my Stanley #45 has it's own box/case.   There are 3 other planes that call a box home..

A Ward's ( Stanley) #78, a Stanley #39 3/8" Dado plane, and that Auburn Tool Co. No. 181 skewed rebate plane...had to tear down the 78, but, everything fits...even the lid closes

Sooo, thought about building a box to house the 71-1/2, and it's cutters....might have some lumber left over..

Not sure about a case for that other router sitting there....

Did a screen shot, of a candidate for such a case....might just keep me busy over the weekend?

Edited January 24, 20206 yr by steven newman

Found this on the inter-webby..

I think I could build a better version?  Might take a weekend?

Roh, kay...here we go, again.....drew a few lines, once I found a decent piece of plywood for the bottom of the box-to-be..

1/4" in from two edges....this is to allow for a groove to house this plywood....bunch more markings coming.

And the rest of the grooves...mainly to allow the plane to sit in the box..

In theory....however...other things must fit inside.   There is a wood block to hold the cutters..

Which sits between the plane and the end of the box...like this...

Had to add a bit...I also traced around the plane.   And, made 2  runners for the plane to sit on...

Cut the plywood to size..

So..NOW I can figure out the sizes of the box's sides....There is a plank, that I'd like to use....

So the grain runs all the way around the box...There was a slight problem, though..

Edge I wanted to use was a bit too wavy...other edge was a bit better..

Plank was also tapered, end to end....we have ways..

Set to the narrowest width, set the better edge against the fence, buzz the bad edge off, reset the fence a bit, and straight line the other edge.  Not enough room to cross cut the plank on this saw...again, we have ways...

This keeps up, I may have to send this out to be resharpened... all sides cut for length..

Don't really need the box this tall..

Just a little off the top? 

 

Next ...set up the other router, with a 1/2" dovetail bit.   Cut a few sockets, doing pins first....then laid out and cut a few tails..

Will fine tune the fit, after the grooves are milled..got a second end done..

Nice, when I need a hammer to drive these together...let alone  drive them apart..

Was getting a bit tired...

Swept the floor, and called it quitting time.  May work on the other two corners tomorrow....start time was 1445 hrs...quitting time was 1630hrs...

Stay tuned...might get interesting....