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Bill,

I'm pretty sure the production date falls somewhere between WW1 and WW2. If you go to flea markets etc. in areas with a strong manufacturing history you'll usually find this type of Starrett...

Thomas has got it right: It looks like old Beitelmann (Chisel man) trademark.
Take a look at this page: http://www.alte-beitel.de/bracht.html

Alfred Kraemer

For any of my smaller hand saws - a old dovetail saw with a more recent Wentzloff blade and a Gyokucho small ryoba - I start at a very shallow angle until the kerf is deep enough to guide the saw....

I have had the Lie Nielsen model makers plane with the flat sole. It is essentially a squirrel-tail plane similar to the old Stanley version, with one big difference: it is a low-angle plane! I have...

Morey,

I don't have access to either one of those, but if you do, I'd send you a chunk. No cost to you.
I could send you a chunk big enough for a couple of handles or similar - make it worth your...

Morey,

I'm pretty sure what I have is black locust. I split the blank for the 'failed' chisel handle and a hammer handle - see attached pic from the board in the same picture. I split a section of...

The source of the wood for my chisel handles have been:
1. a hickory cane that had been cut too short to be useful as a cane. Beautiful grain. It was a cane that was made from a 1 1/2 diameter...

Steven,

What you have is a caliper with fine adjustment - as Bill and Jim pointed out. George - I think - is talking about a transfer caliper(?).
I have seen - and once or twice used used - one...

I just split a couple of 5 ft sections of straight ash - about the same diameter as yours.
The first split was the toughest - halving the log. It took two good steel wedges and four gluts.
Those...

Lasse,

If I'm not mistaken Berg chisels came with a special kind of birch handle - masur birch. I don't know if that type of birch wood had better chisel handle properties than regular birch.
I...

Could it be a chisel made for a former hardware store chain? I have seen some chisels stamped with uncommon names like Gambles, Wedgeway, Pritzlaff (a little more common), and all of them turned out...

Ron,

Here are my 2 cents:
- agree with earlier comments about the handle, adding that to me the thickest part of the handle should be the very end. Just feels more comfortable to me.
- I wonder...

I have seen some furniture made from hornbeam in Germany. Do a search for 'Möbel aus Hainbuche' on the web and you'll picture of mainly tables. Even for that use it is not a common material. One has...

Wolfgang Jordan a has short history of the company at holzwerken.de. It is in German but here are some interesting details:

- the company made woodworking tools to help with slow sales in warm...

Gyokucho is a good brand. David Barron uses them in his youtube demonstrations regularly. As with any saw used for dovetails, do some test cuts to get a feel for the saw first. There are some...

Thanks for the responses and suggestions. Both center heads are good. I used a 5 inch circle, and drew 5 lines through the center with the centerhead aligned at different places on the circle perim...

I bought these three items a while ago at a local flea market for $5. I had been looking for a small center head with a small rule. Well, I found two and then added an older Crescent wrench. The...

If the sole is already tuned right and the iron sharp, you just have to set the iron right. I would give it a try. Even if it doesn't produce super thin shavings, it should still be a good plane. I...

Lasse,

For me the method that Paul Sellers demonstrates works well - if one follows his approach very closely, I.e paring about 1/8 and doing so evenly. You may have noticed that in the demo he...

Phil,

Did you find a tapered, laminated iron, or are you still looking for one? I think I have a spare ohio tool blade of that size.
BTW before considering refurbishing you should take a closer...

My favorite, multipurpose plane is a wooden jack plane with a tapered, laminated thistle brand/Auburn iron. I got a second iron soon afterward, when I saw a good one, an Ohio tool laminated iron....

Ceftainly seems to be a special purpose tools. Just a wild guess: a tool to turn fittings, e.g. valves, vents, etc.in tight spaces.

I saw them next to another item of interest to me: a German schlosserhammer machinist's hammer. The hammer was also marked 'Meister' a label that has been around for decades. A good hardware store...

For all of the small planes compared in this thread there is a tradeoff between usable blade length, 'real estate' under the lever cap, and comfort of grip. No one is arguing for a blade that is so...

Neil,
It depends on what you mean by moderately large. I have scraped a number of solid wood table tops, oak, ash, and alder. I used a card scraper for the less accessible areas and some problem...