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John "stretch" Lannon
John "stretch" Lannon
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This was included in the box of planes that I picked up the other day.  It is a "Keen Kutter".......KK5.  I do not know very much about the KK planes other than they used thicker blades. Anyone know the history of these? 


 


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Shipleigh Hardware of St Louis sold this line.     About like Sears, different makers made tools for Shipleigh.   There was even a  "K" series of tools.      Check out the frog style, it MIGHT be a clone of a Bedrock.....



Planer? I'm the 'planer', and these are what I use...

Here is a pretty good link to the history of Keen Kutter.

http://www.roseantiquetools.com/id42.html

E.C. Simmons & Co. was a wholesale hardware dealer which marked all types of tools. Although they were not a maker per se, the company did acquire controlling interest in the Walden Knife Co. in the 1890’s and had some of their tools made by that company. They were bought out by the A.F. Shapleigh Hdw. Co. n 1940. Besides their best known brand name KEEN KUTTER, some other brand names they used not necessarily before 1900 were: ARKANSAS (splitting wedges), AXTEL (horse rasps), BAY STATE (hatchets), BLACK JACK (various tools including a wrench with a 14 JAN. 1896 patent), BLACKSNAKE (saws), Blue Brand or B.B. (squares and others), BULL DOG (braces and tool sets), CHIPAWAY (axes, planes, hammers and other), CLAY BANK (shovels), COLUMBIA (saws), CUMBERLAND (axes), DEFIANCE (saws), DELMAR (coffee mills), DRIVEWELL (punches), DUCK BILL (wrenches), ESSEX (wrenches), EUREKA (rakes), FARMER BOY (scythe stones), FAST MAIL (saws), W.M. FINCH (saws), HERCULES (wheelbarrows), HOWARD (axes), KEYSTONE (forks), KLICKER (various tools), KLINCHER (pliers), KORN KRUSHER (corn mills, LIGHTNIN, LONE STAR (hoes), H.M. MEIER (saws), MESQUITE (axes), MOGUL (shovels), MONARCH (saws), NEVER SLIP (wrenches), OAK LEAF (various tools), OHIO BOY (rakes), OHIO FALLS (axes), OZARK (splitting wedges), POLAR (ice saws), RED JACKET (hatchets), RED LINE (rules), RED TOP (scythes), ROYAL (axes), RUN EASY (plows, lawn mowers), SMILEY’S (saws), SURE GRIP (braces, vises, wrenches), SWIFT (saws and saw tools), TRUE BLUE (axes), UTILITY (saws, wrenches), VANGUARD (saws), WINNER (lawn mowers), WOOD PECKER (axes), ZULU (axes), WM. ENDERS (various tools) information obtained from the EAIA Directory of American Toolmakers book which you can visit thier website at this link http://www.eaiainfo.org/

They supposely competed with the bedrock Stanley planes. I was in an Antique store a week back and they had a nice Keen Kutter poster. But they wanted 65.00 for it.


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