Show us your most dramatic old tool clean up.

[Mike Brady]

...and one more for variety:

[dan sherman]

My first and most dramatic was a Stanley #3 type 13.
Before
After

My next project is this Stanley #15.

[george wilson]

Derek,you really DO suck!!! Love that schute board. I had one at work that collections loaned me. The plane was out of square,but Jay Gaynor wouldn't let me take a light cut in the groove to square it up,so I never used it. They had a big bunch of old Stanley planes,some quite valuable,that someone donated. They weren't 18th.C.,couldn't be exhibited,and no one could use them,so they just sit there. #444 among others,mint. Also a mint center wheel plough plane by Sandusky. Must be worth over $3000.00,as it was in the early 80's that a collector offered nearly that much.

[Derek Cohen]

Hi George

Thanks!

The #51/52 is one of my favourite - and most used - tools. It is remarkably accurate.

This restoration spanned over a year. I searched for a replacement frog - hah! Then I looked into casting a replacement. A good friend actually loaned me his #51 plane for some months for use as a mold. In the interim I had the weld (that was already present) looked at by a pro. He pronounced it strong, so I decided to leave it alone, which I did. It has stood up to the usual abuse.

The only modification from the original configuration is the addition of a Japanese laminated Smoothcut blade and the thick Clifton cap iron. A great combination.

Regards from Perth

Derek

[Harold Burrell]

Originally Posted by george wilson

Derek, you really DO suck!!!

Originally Posted by Derek Cohen

Hi George

Thanks!

I soooo love this place!

[George Clark]

This has become one of my favorite threads. I really admire the restorations. Nice work gentlemen. My attempt with some Stanley 720s and stabilized maple. It took an incredible amount of rubbing to get the backs flat.

George

[Matt Edwards]

Wow Mike that saw handle looks sweet! The scrub looks fantastic also. I recently sorta did a #40, I picked up an orphan bed on the cheap (no blade or lever cap) I made a blade from an old used lawn mower blade and a make shift lever cap out of spare #78. It actually works real good, and will suffice till I run across a legit lever cap. Of course,mine doesn't hold a candle to yours.


Derek,

I never get tired of seeing your work or reading your write ups. Thanks for all you do!



Matt

[Bob Easton]

A $28 Goodell-Pratt egg-beater





Blog entry detailing the rehab; http://www.bob-easton.com/blog/?p=807

[Jim Koepke]

A $28 Goodell-Pratt egg-beater

It looks like a million bucks...

What was used for the red paint?

This thread has me thinking about fixing up one of my Millers Falls egg beaters.

jim

[David Gendron]

Wow Bob, well done! I will send you a couple Miller Falls and you send me that one!

[Pat Zabrocki]

Here is an old transitional that I really like along. I didn't do the finger joints but now I know how. There's a Millers Falls egg beater that is in progress. Still trying to work out the knob for the crank. It is pink ivory which I think is a natural for the Millers Falls line. There's a marking knife that was brought back from the dead and some perfect handle basket cases that were fun to fix up. I like that ebony ball peen hammer. The 140 and the number 7 were total frankenplanes when I got them (still some work to do on the 7) and some chisels, too
cheers
Pat

[Pat Zabrocki]

here's some more pics

[Derek Cohen]

Whooo, George ... I really like those chisel handles. Where did you get the stablized maple?

And Pat, that transitional is sensational. If you did not do it, who did, and how?

Here's one more from me. Several years ago I bought a Stanley #62 really cheaply (!) on eBay (!!) because it was advertised as having a mouth that was too large to make it a user (ignoring the fact that the mouth is adjustable ). It was in a sorry state.



Indeed, it did not work as the sole was a little banana shaped. I lapped it, cleaned the wood, and left the japanning alone. Later I added a LN blade, which was a little thicker than the original Stanley blade that came with the plane. It turned out like this ..





I wrote an article about this (article: http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ToolRes...enovation.html). The interesting post script is that Rob Lee offered me a LV LA Jack for a comparison (article: http://www.inthewoodshop.com/ToolRev...%20plane..html) and this was the start of a great friendship.

Regards from Perth

Derek

[Pat Zabrocki]

Originally Posted by Derek Cohen

And Pat, that transitional is sensational. If you did not do it, who did, and how?

I bought a pile of junk no. 27 off ebay. the only thing that was done was the finger joints and I bought it to study that. I am making a sled to cut the finger joints so I can do some more. They need to be cut at about a 60 degree angle to make the joints appear smaller at the toe and wider on the sides. I did the glue up, carved out the mouth, rejapanned the metal and repaired the tote. I don't really like the tote much and I have some ebony left over from a Gramercy dovetail saw kit so maybe I'll make a tote and knob to match the ebony sole.

cheers
Pat

[David Keller NC]

"Also a mint center wheel plough plane by Sandusky. Must be worth over $3000.00,as it was in the early 80's that a collector offered nearly that much."

George - A truly mint-condtion Sandusky center wheel plow in boxwood is worth about $12,000 at the Brown auction. In rosewood, about the same. A mint condition ebony Sandusky center-wheel plow is worth about $16k (they are very rare). An Ohio Tools ebony center-wheel is worth about $20,000 - $30,000 and perhaps considerably more, since there are only 2 known to exist.