Great. Just when I thought I had enough tools.
Great. Just when I thought I had enough tools.
Any possibility of toothed blade versions in the future Rob?
Definition of an expert: Someone more than 50 miles from home with a briefcase.
Marples made some cool transitionals too. Bailey adjusters, but the plane is a different design from the Stanley/Sargent transitionals.
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I've been eyeballing this beauty on The Best Things for a while. I'm not going to cough up the $150 for it when I have a 2 good user 26s (really, 1 decent user, 1 very good user), but this t hing sure looks like a nice tool to use.
I quite like Norris adjusters too, so I'll be just as happy with something similar that has one of those instead.
Woodworking is terrific for keeping in shape, but it's also a deadly serious killing system...
That Marples is SO much nicer looking than the Stanley transitionals!! When I started teaching shop in 1963,the shop across the hall had a whole toolroom full of Stanley transitionals,wooden spokeshaves,etc.. I had no idea at that time that they'd ever be worth anything. One day,those tools all were suddenly gone,and all new tools were in there. I had no idea they were slated for updating. Probably all the old tools went to the dump,too.
Yeah, I keep looking at that plane at TBT as well - it's so purty . . . it'd be tempting to snag a frog off a bedrock and see if you could make one . . .
" Be willing to make mistakes in your basements, garages, apartments and palaces. I have made many. Your first attempts may be poor. They will not be futile. " - M.S. Bickford, Mouldings In Practice
Maybe I'd better clear out some stuff and start putting in more workbenches!!