[MASTER] info

[tobytools]

Evening,
I recently brought 2 woodies,
Both identical in every way.
Razee style jack with 2" iron.
Has number 2 stamped on the heel and MASTER on the toe with a rectangle border.
I've had a search about the "master" but couldn't find much maby some one else knows?
I'm thinking modern ****.
I only got them for their irons two super thick Alex mathieson parralle irons. at 5mm ish before the bevel and slightly bigger at the read end at 5.1 the thickest ones I have.
One has been rehoused in my Scottish infill. And the other is a spare but I'm thinking of giving it a go in the woodie just for fun.
Sorry for rambling.
Who's this master???
Thanks
TT

 

[MIGNAL]

Don't know about yours but my modern 'Master' happens to be an extremely good Plane. It's obviously well made.

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[AndyT]

Toby I thought you had a copy of BPM?

It says Master was a trade name used by AB Salmen's Successors Ltd for their machine made planes. Salmen were trading in London from 1926 up till 1967 having bought out Charles Nurse and Co. So modern, but not necessarily dung!

 

[tobytools]

Don't know about yours but my modern 'Master' happens to be an extremely good Plane. It's obviously well made.

post793206.html#p793206

Thanks for the link. answer all my questions, google didn't tell me a thing, my search skill are probably to blame.
Yours may well be a Gooden so no disrespect in that sence, tho the ones I have seem badly made, the totes are both split and seem to have a dowel going all the way through? If for strength then a bad idea as the proof is in the pudding.
As I've said I'll give one ago and make up my own mind. I only wanted the irons so no loss there.
I appreciate your comment
Thanks

Maby I could turn into a scrub plane :0

TT

 

[tobytools]

Toby I thought you had a copy of BPM?

It says Master was a trade name used by AB Salmen's Successors Ltd for their machine made planes. Salmen were trading in London from 1926 up till 1967 having bought out Charles Nurse and Co. So modern, but not necessarily dung!

I do, totally forgot to check.
Maby not dung but...
I'm going to upload some pics
And you can see for yourself

TT

 

[JohnPW]

As it happens just last week I bought a Master wooden technical jack plane, and I found the info in the thread mentioned above. Mine also has a '2' on the back and 'Master' on the front, and the dowel through the handle.

There's a recess roughly cut out from the wedge, I'm not sure why. And there's a brass insert on the sole in front of the mouth.

 

[bugbear]

There's a recess roughly cut out from the wedge, I'm not sure why.

Possibly to act similarly to a sneck.

BugBear

 

[AndyT]

The 2 is just the size - a 2" wide iron.

This is the sort of plane that was popular in schools up till the 1970s. Still just as useful!

 

[JohnPW]

I've finally managed to get the wedge out. The parallel iron is 4mm thick but it's a bit thinner (about 3.5mm) at the bevel. It has the Invicta prancing horse logo and "Nurse & Co, London".

I've also got a Marples BB plane of this type, and apparently that did come from a school, its colour is much lighter though. I suspect my 'Master' dates nearer to 1926 than 1967.

Possibly to act similarly to a sneck

I'm not familar with the word 'sneck', could you expand on that?

 

[bugbear]

Possibly to act similarly to a sneck

I'm not familar with the word 'sneck', could you expand on that?

http://www.wkfinetools.com/contrib/csch ... miter3.asp

BugBear

 

[MIGNAL]

I suspect it was someones attempt to remove a stubborn wedge. As an idea for removing the wedge on a frequent basis it doesn't make much sense, largely because the Plane itself will severely limit the room for a hammer. Then again sometimes folk come up with the strangest of solutions.

 

[Billy Flitch]

This may or then again may not be of interest but several years ago in a conversation on what the word sneck meant this is what came out of the conversation. The latch on a garden gate has a bar that is used to release the latch this is also known as a sneck.In certain parts of northern England a persons nose can also be refaired to as a sneck.

JMHO that the word is used to describe a nosing piece in this case to help set up or release the plane iron or and the wedge.
If you place the web of skin on you left hand against the sneck on a wedge and the heel of the hand on the plane to create pressure between the two and the rap the heel of the plane with a mallet this usually releases the wedge.