Picked this one up today. Even here in Russia, finding hand tools at market is pretty rare it seems. Other than a few rough woodies (horned kind), there were only couple of metal planes. There were plenty of power tools, however.
This particular piece is something similar to budget line of hand plane elsewhere. 10" in length, frog is of cast and non-adjustable type a la No.40, comes with 'proprietary' 2" blade. This is an interesting piece of blade. It seems the whole piece was heat treated and left to oxidize. And then 1/3 of the 'face' (non bevel side) was milled! So cutting side of the blade is slightly thinner than the rest. That silvery part is the milled area. I haven't messed around with it at all, so i can't tell if blade is anything of quality, most likely not.
Front knob sits on slightly ramped base, and knob is tilted forward a bit. Handle is pretty tall, a lot taller than usual No.3/4 handle, so no problem gripping with four fingers. Though it's quit skinny.
I have no idea what I'll do with this plane yet. Clean it up and keep it as an novelty item, or use it for hogging. Or sell it (if anyone wants it that is). I must say, I really like the black USSR lever cap.
Last two pictures are with early Record No.4 for comparison.
Last picture: bottom Record No.4, top Soviet plane.
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