Recent content by Jasper Homminga

Jacob, I love the glass in that door, don't get me wrong I like the door, but that glass ... :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock...

I'm not certain a piece of wood counts as a jig, but screwing one to the bottom of the plane makes trimming tenons easier (not that my tenons need any trimming of course, perfect, straight from the saw, every time ;-)). Jasper

Tony, My garage is badly insulated and (for that reason) unheated. I use a number of things against rust: wooden toolcabinet, camelia oil and a moisture eater (translated from the dutch "vochtvreter"). Extra bonus is that the cabinet smells of lavender. :lol: I don't need any of these...

I was thinking about buying one of those, but I'll leave them well alone now. Thanks. Jasper

Papacojones The dutch Scheppach site has explosion drawings but no manual. http://www.scheppach.nl/documents/docum ... ms_260.pdf Good luck, Jasper

Yes there is the Stanley Bench Plane Dating page Have fun, Jasper (whose planes are older than his grandfather)

The #3 smoothers seem to be fairly constantly about 8 3/4" long, while the #4 smoothers seem to be about 9 1/4". Assuming they were really 8" and 9" back in 1867, they did grow over time. What confuses me most is WHY? I specifically bought the #3 because it seemed a nice length for small boxes...

Sole lengths (excluding the protruding back handle support) that we have so far, including those from the OldTools list that I could get an approximate date on: #3 ~1910 8 5/8" (1x) / 8 3/4" (1x) ~1920 8 3/4" (1x) ~1930 8 5/8" (2x) <1924 8 7/8" (2x) 8 1/16" (1x) #4 older...

Wazzat Den? (scroll down to "X. Who is this "Jeff" guy?") It's a Step-By-Step Mr_Grimsdale Jasper Ian beat me to it.

So we now have an SBS on an OBMC handle? Did you use the LAS, the BUS or the BUJ (from LV or LN) or maybe your BUJ from Stanley? Sometimes you lot are killing me with all these abbreviations. :wink: Edited because I should of course have thanked Derek for the tutorial, before having...

This is starting to interest me. I'll measure all my Stanley bench planes to see what other planes differ from Blood and Gore. Anyone else care to measure their Stanley bench planes? Age and USA/GB may be interesting to compare as well. Jasper

I just thought about checking the Old Tools list et voila: "my 1912 #3 is 8 3/4" so is my SW #3" "All 3 of mine are 8 3/4" long" Seems Stanley slowly but surely lengthened the no.3 until it was a full 9 1/4" long. Odd people these patermakers. #-o Jasper

Lord Nibbo, I was going to ask if this was the handplane version of the stamp with the upside-down plane on it, but I have a feeling your not talking about planes at all.[-X Alf, I can see how one casting mould could vary from the next, but since paternmakers are generally regarded as...

Hi I have just received two Stanley low knob planes, a no.3 and a no.4 (no gloat, not to worry). I was expecting the no.3 to be 8" long (from Blood and Gore) but the two planes seemed so close in length that I measured them and found the no.3 to be 8.66" while the no.4 was indeed the expected...

Derek, I like the way your handle first follows the line of the socket, elegant (why would I want elegant mortising chisels?). Would the groove after that weaken the handle too much? Personally, I like the look of the handles Bob Smalser put on these chisels (but they do have a hoop). These...