Dream hand plane! Thanks Bertha.

Nice job – I love old tools and have a small collection of them myself.

They can teach us a lot about the craft we all love so much!

I love the look of this plane – very rugged. It looks like it had a lot of great years of service and now, hopefully, many more!

-bob

-- Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. - Thomas Carlyle http://www.ffrf.org

wow, they look great. Well done.

looks good I have a couple to do, I hope mine turn out as well

-- two men walk into a bar the third one ducks, which are you??

Congrat with the wonderful planes.
Best thoughts,
Mads

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

thanks for sharing they deffently look like they have a tale or two to tell
if they cuold speak
but since you obv. got detracted of its buty in them
and forgot the oblique photos with lost curly shaves .. LOL
we have to ask do they perform :-)

Dennis

Dennis, thanks for asking. See my last post on how I can sharpen the irons with the Tormek. I got a small cut while handling one so have to be careful! The big ones I haven’t used yet and can understand that setting them up is just as important as having them sharp. The wedge type seems fussy to me but the previous owner can show how to get it working. I need to try this thing out tho so off to find a huge board to plane. The smaller ones like the #5 Baily work so sweet and I finally now hear what others are talking about, that sound! And the best part is now I can touch them up quickly now that the bevels are true.

-- $tudie

:-) now you deffently is lost … hearing a well tuned plane sing
while using it yourself and there is noway back … :-))

yes you have to fuzzle a bit more with a woodenplane compared
with an ironplane just remember it goes quicker if you only
tap very light with a small mallet
there is quite a few vidioclips both on L J and you-tube that show
how you handle woodenplanes under finetuning
never bee brute on a woodenplane

good luck may you get the best out of them
Dennis

Totally spectacular!!!

-- My dad and I built a 65 chev pick up.I killed trannys in that thing for some reason-Hog

Thanks Dennis, I will look for the clips. That we can see so much information now makes learning fast. I guess I need to make a real bench now so I can clamp some big wood for the planes. Now look what you’ve done Al. It’s all your fault my new obsession. I have always loved to look at my planes but now I will use them now that they are sharp!

-- $tudie

very nice. They look great. I’ll bet they are happy to be back in service.

-- There is nothing like the sound of a well tuned hand plane. - http://timetestedtools.wordpress.com (timetestedtools at hotmail dot c0m)

Nice job. Congrats. Enjoy it.

-- Jiri