Restored Planes

Nice lookin planes. I have a Stanley Bailey #4 that belonged to my dad. Don’t know the age. I’ve had it for 40 years and don’t know how long he had it. BZ

-- Dudley Young USN Retired. Sebastian, Fl.

Beautiful restoration job, and a great collection too, I hope soon my collection will be something similar, I just got a No4, No5 , another No6, No220 and a No78 out of ebay in addition to my first No6 and No3. I agree on the job done by the No3, one of my favorites too.

-- The things I make may be for others, but how I make them is for me.

Don – nice job on the restoration.

Alonso – you probably outbid me on a couple of those on ebay. I have been trying to get a set similar to this and restore them. So far I have a #4, a 110 and 960. I bought a granite surface plate for truing the soles and flattening the irons.

-- A bad craftsmen blames his cheap #$%ing tools

JoeinDE – Relative to flattening the irons and sharpening, I have a granite plate and find I almost never use it. Instead, I went to a local glass store and asked for any 1/4” glass remnants that they could make into a 4X12 piece. I then gorilla glued them to a piece of 1/4” plywood for support. These will then take 1/3 piece of sandpaper. Use 40u (600) grit, 15u, 5u, 1u, and .3u and then a leather strop with green rouge. Really does a nice job and with these 5 pieces of glass I’m always set up to do a quick touchup on planes or chisels.

-- Don, Saginaw Mi

JoeinDE

That will be pretty hard to tell but who knows, perhaps you may be right maybe on a couple I got lucky, who knows, this is already getting a little out of my hands (I think) I just bought 2 more a little while ago (No 110 & No 4C) and I have 114 on my watching list :o) (like if I’m going to buy’em all) lol

-- The things I make may be for others, but how I make them is for me.

Well done. Great choices in plane selection. All you need now is a 4 1/2 or 5 1/2. : ^ )

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

looking great from here you can always toss them over to me if …............ :-))

Dennis

good job, now u have almost as many as me. but i cheated i got most of mine new, i wish i had all the info to restore planes. when i was buying the ones i have now if i had the inf i could’ve gotten them cheaper maybe. now i want to change the frogs on mine also the blades, hock/lie nielson blades and the frogs that are flat from top to bottom. don’t know what type they are but i’ll do the research and find out.

-- Ike, Big Daddies Woodshop, http://www.icombadaniels@yahoo.com

I put Hock blades on all my Stanleys and it is without a doubt the best thing I’ve ever done to them. If I were you I would consider it. VAST IMPROVEMENT!!!!!!

-- Jed,Ala,jmwoodworks057.com

Beautiful resto. How did you repaint them? Did you use a brush or mask off all but the top and spray? Thanks.

WWilson – I masked everything off except what I wanted repainted, then used a sponge brush to spread the Rustoleum Glossy Black enamel. I also found that after I had the plane coated with the sponge brush, I dabbed the brush over the entire area. This seemed to take out any stroke marks and smoothed the surface to a nice smooth paint job.

-- Don, Saginaw Mi

Tanks Don. I am thinking of doing this to my planes in the next year and wasn’t really sure how to get a good finish.

Nice Job

-- Bud, Central Square, NY, http://thepostnbeam.blogspot.com/

Very pretty planes candy to the eye

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

Beautiful planes!

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker