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Nice series of articles from Popular Woodworking https://www.popularwoodworking.com/tools/choosing-hand-planes/
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I had bought this plane last year because I'm a shooter and the name "Winchester" on a hand plane was interesting to me. So the intended use was to sit on a shelf in my "man cave", but I though this might be worth taking for a spin. To be honest, I've found it is such a good plane I may keep in the shop as a user. Anyway, I have no idea who made this plane for Winchester, but it sure looks like a Stanley. It my understanding that both Stanley and Sargent made them at one time or another. That matters not to me, I was OK with either. What did attract me to this was it's rather complete. A lot of the Winchester planes I've seen had some parts swapped, this one appears original to my untrained eye. The casting is marked W4, the cap iron is Winchester, and the iron is marked Winchester. As I recall I paid $40 for it, the prices on these are artificially high since gun collectors buy them as well. Anyway, some pics....I didn't sharpen it to make those curls, used it just as I received it. I did (after the test drive) flatten the sole, but it didn't take much.
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Just saw an ad on Craigslist for five Gegr Baldauf wooden hand planes, for sale for $50 for all five. Here is the listing if anybody is interested: https://wichita.craigslist.org/tls/d/five-rare-gegr-baldauf-wood/6619457965.html
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So last Friday, I spent most all afternoon and evening performing a series of small jobs for my step-father. The main one was repairing his clothes dryer plus a mixed bag of other things...while picking up my tools in the laundry room, he disappeared for a bit...when I went to check on him, he had pulled these off the fire place mantel where they've "resided" for years. He handed them to me and said "I want you to have these if you want them?" They belonged to his grandfather (a carpenter by trade)... This is not a tool gloat (well maybe just a little), but I was overwhelmed to receive this as family heirlooms...Thanks for looking! I think the one on the left is mahogany??? The one on the right is hard maple. Both are in remarkable good condition for being ~125-150 years old Notice the heavy layers of leather strapping put in place to cushion your hand. Also I'm assuming the optional add on leg bolt to adjust the fence position I think both f these might have been used to cut window sash moldings and also for some trim work as they both have multiple cutters some with a degree of profile The only markings on either were on this one..."great-grandfather's" initials stamped in one end.
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I have to brag about a book I purchased a couple weeks ago, it's been by my bed and I have been reading it every night before going to bed. A couple weeks ago I also built a mallet, and I loved the experience of building my own hand tools. It gave me a satisfaction knowing that a tool I need to use, I built! You can see my Big Ash Mallets by clicking on the link. Now, leading up to the subject of this topic, the wonderful and very interesting book, Making and Mastering Wood Planes by David Finck. The book is priced well, actually it's a great book that should probably have a higher retail value on it than what David Finck is selling them at, but shhh, we won't tell him that! You can go to this link Purchase the Book and pick one up for yourself, at this point in time he ran out of new books till mid to late August 2016, but you can still get a great deal on lightly used books for a very deeply discounted price. The book itself is loaded with beautiful images, very easily understood illustrations, and it's not just a plane book, it's also a book on tuning up machinery and hand tools, in order to make your own hand planes correctly and accurately. About 5/8ths of the book is actual hand plane building, the rest is about how to use the tools you need to build them, and once you build the planes to tune them, and use them. This is not only a book to keep in your shop for reference as you build your hand planes, but it would also make a nice coffee table book as well. It's that nice looking! It's not often I give a book review, but I just had to in this case as this is a very special book. Also, if you order David's new book, he'll sign it before he sends it to you, he signed mine, and it looks cool. Have fun folks, by the way, I have no horse in this game, David Finck does not even know who I am, I make no commission on this plug, I just love this book that much, I felt I had to let the world know about it.
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Cleaning up the shop, putting away the toys, er tools. Spied a black box Hmm, wonder what I stashed in there? Opened it up, found a couple wood bodies for a few hand planes, eh....and a few of these That long sucker is a 5/8 Bowl gouge. If I recall correctly, and it was a yard sale item that cost a $1. Four Craftsman chisels, and four that were I think from Harbor Freight. Went back and cleaned these all up. Now the problems arise. You see, there isn't any room for them in this box and the lathe these went to is a rusty, broken down mess. Plastic fan on the "dryer" motor( looks like one, anyway) is broke. The joint between the two sections of the "T" rail is in BAD shape. Rusty as all get out. Not really worth the effort to rehab, even for me. So, what to do with these "Treasures"?
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