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dickm

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Got the plane shown in the pic as part of a job lot. The body is ?beech?, but it's fitted with a modern type metal frog. Has an awful, thin modern Stanley blade but is also marked Marples.
My guess is that this might be a wartime/postwar attempt to get round shortage of steel, or maybe a cheap "schools model" - it's certainly not a "transitional type" antique! With a better iron, it might be useable as a scrub plane?
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It is a beech bodied Marples transitional jack plane - they also produced a smoother - made primarily for school use (During the '50's when schools were moving between wooden and iron soled planes) with a decent crucible steel iron, but limited frog adjustment. Limited frog adjustment - via two round headed wood screws - means you've little recourse when sole wear becomes excessive - apart from re-lining the sole/shortening the cap iron - and little/no longitudinal blade movement available during set up.
 
Here is an ad from The Woodworker, May 1960.
 

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Thanks, guys. Had a feeling it was probably a schools model, but it's good to have it confirmed. Probably the best that can be said for it is that it is "interesting".
 

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