Recent content by Flartybarty

I use Excel to list my tools in various columns. I found it makes absolutely no difference to whether I buy duplicate tools or not - especially antique tools. For instance I have 11 infill smoothers - most of which I rarely, if ever, use. Yes, I am in need of help but I don't CARE.

Joke is that we could ALWAYS have had blue passports - the red ones weren't mandatory. Croatian passports are blue and German passports are a sort of pink. As if it mattered !! All the others are a sort of Burgundy-ish shade. The REAL joke is that the new UK passport is manufactured in...

Agreed - worst decision the UK ever made.

Very nice -especially after a good cleanup. Aside from the usual well-known brands like Norris, Mathieson, Spiers, Moseley, etc, there were a host who also made infill planes but never bothered to stamp them because, for the most part, they didn't export or send to other parts of the...

500000 in a day is pretty good. I'm 76 and live in France and was supposed to get a letter from my doctor last week but so far - nada. I can, however, make an appt using the web page but would prefer to wait until my OH is able to do likewise - she's 71. in the meantime I remain indoors as...

I have rarely read such drivel. You might change your attitude if you were in ICU about to peg it. I am aware that 'flu also kills people but the difference is in the time it takes to develop symptoms and I have so far not heard of the hospitals being overwhelmed with 'flu patients...

Make sure yout blade is razor sharp and set it so it gives paper thin shavings - I ,ean really thin. Prefereably, your oak is straight grained and has no knots - is so, you should be OK. Don't concentrate exclusively on getting full length shavings - that's not necessasry if your shvings are fine.

I watched this film through to the end with great interest and also a lot of sorrow. You are witnesing the end of a trade. There are no more traditional plane makers. Yes, there are those of us, both private and commercial, who carry on making wooden planes, but no longer truly hand made...

I have several old rebate planes - a few of them are dovetailed construction but most are not. Shoulder planes, being wider, are often of dovetailed construction, being easier to make - I can confirm this, having made a couple myself. If it has a name on the nose of NORRIS or SPIERS, then it's...

Sadly, very little goes "unnoticed" on ebay , although I have won a few nuggets in joblots.

My guess is that it is a router. One of the annoying things about Stanley/Record, etc, routers is the narrowness of the iron and sole so if you are smoothing the bottom of a wide recess you either have to fit a temporary base to your router (the No 71 and 71-1/2 have provision for this) which...

Andy - I'm inclined to continue to think it is indeed a Mathieson plane given where it was bought and the other planes that came with it. It is in need of some TLC - if it were otherwise (i.e. in perfect nick) I would not be so sure that it was sourced at or near its original home. If you see...

Update - I still don't know who made the plane but you may find the following interesting. (For original listing - see a few postings below). Under the frog were two folded up bits of newspaper. One disintegrated completely but I was able to unfold the other. Enter the Internet. The paper...

Yes, this was my first thought. All that would be necessary is a 2-3/8" lever cap - I have all the rest. I'll clean it up and try one of my No 5-1/2 caps in it. If it works well, than I'll keep it in it's present configuration with a suitably old lever cap (e.g. without a brand name). If I...

P.s. - re the original plane - I do have all the fixing screws.