I've had a bunch of combo planes and plow planes and my favorite is the Stanley #45. Alf has convinced me the #405 is superior but I've never seen one in the wild. :) Plowing grooves is a pretty easy task and many planes can do it well. A #50 is good, the #043 is really good for small work...
I'm not a real believer in type studies. They do help in getting general age of a plane but the tools were made first and type studies came later. They are not absolute. My best guess is that there was a short run of bodies made with these features somewhere in the Type 14/15 range and the...
I would leave the previous owner's mark as part of the tool's history but that is just me.
20 degrees seems pretty steep. It makes it easy to put a micro bevel on, though. I have mine with 25 degree primary/30 degree secondary bevels.
Nice score.
Cecil Pierce used to cut dovetails with a hacksaw. He detailed his method in the last part of his book. It is to be noted that he fitted his dovetails by paring with a chisel not straight from the saw. His was the first work on dovetails that I read and that is the way I did them for quite a...
I have had scrub plane irons get hot enough in use to discolor. Quick strokes while edge jointing a long board can get an iron pretty hot in the center.
Looking good! I have no info on Tyzaks but domed nuts, stamped blade sounds like mid 1800's. That is a big, aggressive rip. I'll trade you a couple of Disstons for it. :wink:
BTW. that is an abrupt angle at the heel. Is that typical of Tyzaks?
Rob mentioned 3M films and this is one of the advantages. I stick them to 12" square granite tiles and working lengthwise is easy. I have only one 1/8" chisel, a Buck sash mortise that gave me some pause. I just took a small piece of wood with a square edge and held the chisel tight to the...
I have a WWII era Disston D-7 panel saw that raises blisters on my hand but that is a small blocky handle. None of my full size saws bother me although the D-23's don't feel nearly as nice as the older ones.
I've never heard anyone say a #7's handle was uncomfortable until now. I've always thought it was Disston's best handle shape and most British inspired.
Jr. Strasil has an adjustable system for planing to consistent widths and thicknesses. Here is a thread where we discussed it.
Instead of using it for tongues, he makes pieces for parquetry.
That is a beauty, especially the handle design. I agree, where that chip is would really aggravate my hand. I think you are right to fix it. I have a couple of saws that I quit using until I do a similar repair.
I'm old enough to have used the flat ones. Trigonometry in school would have been horrible without one. The normal sized ones were accurate to only 3 significant digits. One classroom at my high school had one 6 or 8 feet long on a wall but it was a single face. Still it was handy for a lot...