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Could one of our knowledgeable members please id this trademark? It's something familiar to me from way, way back, but I just cannot place it: From other pics in the listing, it's the Bailey recipe done in pressed steel (even the frog is a stamping!). Any further info would be appreciated...

I got a bee in my bonnet a little while ago & started making miniature tools, just for the challenge. The most ambitious one to date is a half-sized plough plane based on one I acquired about 30 years ago. It came to me in very rough shape, and someone has removed all traces the maker's stamp...

Turns out there’s more to making miniatures than meets the eye! A while ago I got a pack of 1095 shim stock to cut up into saw blades. It was an “assorted” pack, and apart from the thicknesses I really wanted (0.020 & 0.025”), it included a sheet each of 0.010 & 0.005 inch. I wasn’t much...

My initial intention was to make a thumb plane with a round back, similar to a Norris 32. But then I thought I might want to add a screw adjuster, and the thin side-wall material would not have been suitable to take the stud for the thumb wheel, so I scotched the bent side idea and instead fixed...

Being a hoarder of scraps I have plenty of material to keep me going for a while. Small leftovers of brass & precious wood make good raw materials for marking-gauges, & as my hoard was building up after a recent spate of plane-making, I decided to make a small batch of gauges using some bits of...

I made a small one of these a few years ago. It's not a bad performer, but rather pint-sized (75mm sole length, 25mm blade width), and a little basic-looking: Since that time I've moved on to making screw adjusters, which I included on my second chariot plane. This one is a bit of a...

After a flurry of planemaking these last 6months, I had a tray full of odd-shaped bits of brass looking for something to do. A couple of irregular scraps of 1/8” plate about 100mm long by no more than 30mm wide had a vague resemblance to the side of a very small plane, so I decided that’s what...

Which is: "What are their special attributes?" Or the corollary - what particular tasks were they used for? I guess the obvious answer would be. "If you don't know, then you obviously don't need one!" But I'm curious - I've done lots of searching, & reading what I can find on the topic, and...

This was a drawn-out build, so I’ll go through it in a series of posts. It’s my second panel plane project, the first was an all-steel version made from a kit which had the sides & sole roughed out. Rough is the operative word, and I had some bother getting the sockets cleaned out so the...

Close enough to 40 years ago, I first became aware of the lovely infill shoulder/rebate planes of the latter 19th century & immediately lusted after one, but such beauties were well beyond my financial reach at the time. After much thought, heavily influenced by my limited budget, tool kit &...