Plane Box

A nice home for a nice plane. Looks great.

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Good salvage job.

-- Make furniture that lasts as long as the tree - Ryan

Good Looking Work Box Gerry!! Sweet Plane too… It looks like it just came out of the box itself!! Amazing condition for a tool nearly 100 years old. You should have some good fun with that!!

-- Mike in Concord, NH---Unpleasant tasks are simply worthy challenges to improve skills.

nice box for a nice plane

-- I am not so rich to buy cheap tools.

It is only appropriate than an old plane be housed in a box made of old wood. Congrats on your thrift. It brings joy to the Scot in me.

-- The nicer the nice, the higher the price!

Nice job. I have two of those planes (long story, don’t let my wife know). Have made one box already, need to make a second one this summer. It’s a lot of fun learning how to use the 45. Roy Underhill uses one in his show from time to time but only as a plow plane. Want to do reeding with mine.

-- The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.

Nice work Gerry. A handsome box for a great tool. The hardware you used really compliments it nicely. I read a good article about setting up that type of plane by Mario Rodriquez in FWW mag. a few years ago. It seemed a little difficult to set up. What is your experience with it?

-- Mike, American in Norway

Mike—Thanks for mentioning that article … I’ll have to look it up. Another good source of info is at http://www.whitemountdesign.com/Stanley45Info.htm .

The No 45 can be a little tricky to set up … so far all I have done with it is grooves and rebates, but I intend to use it for beading as well.

I haven’t gone thru the type study on it yet, but this plane came with a set of 2 wooden boxes containing a total of 20 cutters. That would suggest it was made between 1896 and 1909. However the main body and sliding, adjustable skate have a stippled pattern, which would place it around WWI. It is possible the cutters actually belonged to one of the earlier models.

—Gerry

-- Gerry -- "I don't plan to ever really grow up ... I'm just going to learn how to act in public!"

great recycling and a well made home to a nice plane :-)

thank´s for sharing Dane :-)

take care
Dennis

Cool plane box… Cool dovetails… Cool hardware… Cool finish…

Hey guy, you did a COOL job on the project!

Good inspiration too… I have some hardware like that… that I took off some junk piece I found… I could put it to use on something like that…

Thank you.

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This we have to love!
A wonderful tool, care, recycle and you!
My eyes run, congratulations on the plane.
Best of my thoughts,
Mads

-- Mad F, the fanatical rhykenologist and vintage architect. Democraticwoodworking.

Ohhh, yes and a wonderful job you did on that box, a perfect home for that plane.

-- Mad F, the fanatical rhykenologist and vintage architect. Democraticwoodworking.

Mads—Thank you for the kind words! I like to thin of myself as a conservationist or preservationist … my wife says I’m more like a pack rat!

—Gerry

-- Gerry -- "I don't plan to ever really grow up ... I'm just going to learn how to act in public!"

Laugh

-- Mad F, the fanatical rhykenologist and vintage architect. Democraticwoodworking.

I have an old no. 45 that was handed down from my grandpa to my dad to me. One of the most treasured tools of my shop. I don’t know why, but a bead formed by one of these just looks better than one put on by a router. Great job on the box.

-- StevieP ~ Micheal Tompkins - you were not here on earth long but left a giant mark on us. RIP Brother