A couple of days ago I met with an old man 86 years of age but still going strong. He used to be a cabinet maker before he retired twenty years ago or something like that. We began to speak about tools and he showed me all his wooden handplanes most of them he had made by himself. They were beautiful with hornbeam bodys and soles from lignum vitae. They were mostly fittet with laminatet E.A. Berg irons. I think he could see my interest and said I should build my own plane. Then he took out a large box containing at least a hundred E.A Berg plane irons and chip breakers. There were a few Peogeut and Two Cherries too. None of them were used. NOS so to speak. Most of them had very lightly rust on the surface but nothing serious. It turned out he had been helping cleaning up an old hand plane factory when They turned the key and went out of business some years ago and got paid in plane irons. I have No idea of How awaileble these plane irons are so I bought a few really cheap and will try to make me a wooden hand plane some Day.
If it is of any interest I think he would be willing to sell more of them.
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Originally Posted by Lasse Hilbrandt
