Bank holiday Carboot

[Racers]

Hi Chaps

Fortune smiled on me today


This lot for £10 bought from different stalls.



The moulding planes.



Close up of the small moving fillister.



I haven't seen one of these before, is it just me?
I have made some new boxing and its gluing at the moment, should be a nice user.

The badger is in reasonable nick but it very dry its soaking up linseed oil like mad.
The tonguing plane with the worm holes in is in the freezer at the moment just in case.

The dovetail saw is a Bowden &CO Sheffield feels nice in the hand bit needs sharpening and setting, looks like its a rip saw.

The long auger is a Ridgeway 7/16th and 17" in length


Pete

 

[AndyT]

Very nice!
That's the first time I've seen a slimline moving fillister like that. I wonder who would have wanted one with such a narrow range?
It looks like there might be a maker's name lurking under an owner's name - can you make it out?

 

[wizard]

all i found was this Toothing Plane 50p

 

[Racers]

AndyT

C Brown.

Found this http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/c ... ne-pair-ur

Wizard

Toothing planes are fantastic for gnarly grain or wood block work tops they don't care which way the grain goes! then a card scraper of sander and you are done.



Pete

 

[AndyT]

Thanks Pete. Your link suggests it's by an American maker, which fits with us not having seen one over here.

 

[Racers]

Update, the plane says W Brown, the stamp is feint.



Pete

 

[richarnold]

I'm not 100% sure, but I think the fillister is what is referred to as a cock bead fillister. These are more commonly found with a fixed rebate but I suppose there is a need sometimes for different thicknesses of cock bead.
Cheers, Richard

 

[Racers]

Thanks Richard

I will bring it along to your open day if you want to have a look at it.

Pete

 

[AndyT]

Richard's identification of your plane as a moving cock-bead fillister makes sense to me. Definitely not a common pattern!

There's a really good article in TATHS Journal no 9 (from 1996) in which the author, Gwynne Travis, looks at some of the few examples known, all with fixed rebate depths, including those in the Seaton Chest. He goes on to argue that although these planes were sold for making the rebates around drawers into which applied cock beading could be fitted, they would not actually have been very useful for that job. They were, he says, an early example of toolmakers producing a tool which sounded useful enough to be bought, but was not really necessary.

I think that argument sounds quite familiar on this forum!!

 

[wizard]

cleaned it up a bit

 

[AndyT]

cleaned it up a bit

Ouch!

I guess it's too late to say that was a nice plane in original condition with the evidence of years of use on it.

If you were hoping to sell it on, I think you have just blown your chances of getting a good price on it. Sorry!!
Did you use a belt sander?

I guess the iron is still worth as much as it was.

 

[Racers]

To be fair it does look like it has been in a fire, some chairing on the wedge by the looks of it, so its an improvement and 100 years or so's time it will be looking good again.

Pete

 

[AndyT]

To be fair it does look like it has been in a fire, some chairing on the wedge by the looks of it, so its an improvement and 100 years or so's time it will be looking good again.

Pete

Yes, but the charring now leaps out at you in contrast to the sanded beech, where it blended in before.

 

[wizard]

not selling it i like it and it was burnet on one side, if it wasn’t that bad i would have left it. yes it was sanded on a linisher.