I agree that it's probably a Union plane made before the Stanley buy-out made for a hardware store. I've seen a number of these and have two in my user kit- they are excellent planes. They were made...
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I agree that it's probably a Union plane made before the Stanley buy-out made for a hardware store. I've seen a number of these and have two in my user kit- they are excellent planes. They were made...
I use paraffin on all of my metallic and wooden plane soles, including molding planes. It works wonders. It's easy to find too- I just look for my wife's stash of those little tea light candles that...
I'm going to take an educated guess and say it's a Taylor patent brace made by H.O. White in h]Hebron, CT. See Sandy's site here: http://www.sydnassloot.com/Brace/Taylorb.htm for details. It's...
Red, black, and pin oak (all of which are grouped together and called "red oak") smell terrible to me. It's a smell that combines best features of stale urine and vomit. It has the distinct smell of...
I've been there several times but I won't be going this year. The parking lot tailgate is usually excellent if the weather is nice. If it rains the tailgate will be non-existant. The dealer show is...
There are dedicated drawer bottom planes available- these are essentially small plow planes with an adjustable fence and a couple of irons. They are almost always British and made by the big names-...
That era of Stanley plane had a very thin castings and often suffered damage to the body in that same place- where the casting is the thinnest. I've found many with cracked and chipped castings, some...
If you are interested in learning about using and making wooden planes I'll echo the advice to get Larry Williams' and Don McConnell's DVDs. You won't find better sources of information without going...
The "B" foundry mark dates to about 1899-1902 which coincides nicely with your blade which is a "TmQ" dating to 1891-1904. The full text of the logo should read: "Stanley PAT.AP'L19.92"
That's a...
Wooden dado planes are very easy to tune up and use. So long as they aren't warped there isn't much that can go wrong with them. They are the fastest way to cut a dado by far. They are also a lot of...
Incannell gouges are indeed good for coping or scribing. I never realized how versitile they were until I noticed that Roy Underhill uses them frequently on his show for all sort of paring...
I do the same thing when splitting a tough piece of birch- I'll make an X with the saw to seat the wedges. Birch seemed to cut well on the sawmill and sure smelled great.
With birch you want to...
I'm a little late to the thread here. Black birch is nice wood but it's not terribly popular and you probably won't find it in a lumber yard. As far as it's properties go, it's harder and denser than...
Yup- it's a handled slitting gauge missing its fence. These are not terribly common but they do come up from time to time. Many are craftsman-made but some were made and marked by planemakers. Here...
I'll fourth or fifth the recommendation to buy Larry and Don's DVDs from Lie-Nielsen. Larry's DVD on sharpening profiled edge tools is the best reference on sharpening molding planes, gouges, bench...
Besides the oaks, hickory and ash are very easy to split and rive, assuming the logs are straight and free of knots. Birch, beech, maple, and other ring-diffuse woods are a lot harder to split and...
There's a bit of information on HM Meier here: http://www.wkfinetools.com/cCorner/c_BrickhouseF/saws/MeierHM/MeierHM.asp
Yours looks like it's from the late 1800s. It wouldn't surprise me if it...
It looks like an ice chopper to me- similar to a slick and at first glance can be confused for one.
-Josh
The medallion in that saw features Munger's 1869 patent date. The medallion is obviously made in two parts as per Munger's patent. Only a few makers used this patent- Peace, and Richardson to name...
Mark's advice on iron sizing is dead-on. The two most important measurements are the shank width, to make sure it fits through the mortise, and the thickness, to make sure it passes through the mouth...
As few as five years ago I was giving them away for free just to be rid of them. Nobody wanted them!
As far as what to look for- the most important thing is that the box shouldn't be broken or...
As far as I know, the Langdon Acme box was offered in three sizes, referred to in the catalog as 1, 2, and 2 1/2. The model numbers 68-75 determined the combination of saw and box. The model numbers...
Chris-
I'm glad the Sargent jointer tuned up nicely and works well. Great job on flattening that blade! Seeing that sort of pitting I would have deemed it a goner. I'm a big fan of the earlier...
It looks like a well-intentioned attempt at an all-in-one tongue and groove plane. It used fixed fences to center the joint on stock of a specific width. One blade is used to cut the tongue. That...
The Sargent bench planes are great users in my experience. They might not have all the bells and whistles of the Stanley planes but they are high quality planes and work well. The Early Sargents are...