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There's some info about the maker on my website:
https://www.holzwerken.de/museum/hersteller/doerken_j_a.phtml

Wolfgang

Turn it around and you will read IXION. You will find some info about this company on my website:
http://www.holzwerken.de/museum/hersteller/ixion.phtml

Wolfgang

This kind of plane was made by Hans Schrøder's Toolworks in Denmark. Here's a page from one of their catalogs. Their trademark is JACK, so you may call your plane a jack reform plane :)...

Nice find, Kees. The mark on the iron is "F. WILHELM DÜRHOLZ", a maker of chisels and plane irons in Remscheid/Germany.

Wolfgang

Hello Rob,

this is a sash coping plane, used for coping sash molding. Its use is explained for example in "The Handplane Book":
http://books.google.de/books?id=lSVMWpzqfNgC&pg=PA223

I've never...

This mark (a hat with a tuft of chamois hair) was registered in 1921 by Gebr. [Bros.] Tesche in Wuppertal-Cronenberg:
http://www.tmdb.de/de/marke/Gamsbarthut,DE261340.html

I don't know much about...

This plane looks like a 'Zahnleistenhobel', as we call it in Germany. Here's a German and a French model side by side:...

Rich,

could it be "WOLFRAM" (tungsten) and "VANADIUM"? These are typical ingredients of steel alloys. This may give a clue to dating the iron, but I do not know much about steel and alloys.
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Yes. it's a German plane, made by G. Baldauf:
http://www.holzwerken.de/museum/hersteller/baldauf.phtml
The company was founded in 1842 and closed in 1961. Your plane is made of hornbeam and is a...

Dave,

from the shape of the body I think it is a Goldenberg plane. Goldenberg was in Alsace/France, which belonged to Germany between 1871 and 1918. He made planes in this style for export,...

John,

glad you like this plane. Lachappelle was quite a famous maker. Too bad they had to give up back in 2000. Their website is still up explaining the circumstances:
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Thank you, Jeff. Holzwerken.de is my website, and if someone needs help in translation just ask.

Ulmia is one possibility, but their irons usually are also marked Ulmia. A Goldenberg (French) iron...

Kevin,

there are instructions on the German ECE site (in German and English):

http://www.ecemmerich.de/images/Hinweise_HP.pdf

Wolfgang

Yes, a toothing plane. These planes are still made by E. C. Emmerich and Ulmia:

http://www.ecemmerich.com/metallhobel.html
http://www.ulmia.de/English/Ulmia-Hobel_2.htm#Zahnhobel

Are there...

There is only one set of teeth on this blade. You can see in the video that Frank uses another frame saw with a regular blade to cut down to the scribe line. Then he switches the saw and removes the...

I forgot to say that part I of the Joh. Weiss 1909 catalog reprint can be found online:

http://www.handplane.com/joh-weiss-sohn-1909-catalog-part-i

Ken's planes are No. 1 and 2 on the first...

Ken,

these are Austrian planes made by "Joh. Weiss & Sohn (son)" in Vienna/Austria. The narrow plane is a scrub plane and the wide one a jack plane (called "Schlichthobel" in German). Look here...

David,

the name of the first maker is "Hudson Forge". I do not know anything about this company, but I have a small plane (#101?) with their name and "Made in Germany" on it.

The chisel in...

Dan,

here's some online stuff:

http://www.crfinefurniture.com/1pages/sitelinks/howplane.html
http://www.norsewoodsmith.com/node/20
http://www.norsewoodsmith.com/node/58...

Hi Dominic,

the stamp on your plane reads 'UNION FACTORY/WARRANTED". Here's some info on Hermon Chapin and his Union Factory:
http://theclampguy.info/hist_ch.htm

W. Butcher is indeed a...