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The CHEEZIEST Hand Plane Ever Made!! I Have It!!

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An antiques show today, kinda tough buying anything of note… and then this thing showed up at a table: A genuine "Sea Gull" plane, manufactured in Taiwan!! Ta-Dahhh! Pressed steel base and frog, plastic tote and knob, and delicious Hemi Orange paint! Who could refuse? Unused, it was $5.00!! I'm not sure if this is a knock-off of that Harbour Freight #33 that some people turn into scrubs. Whoever had a sick enough mind to foist such an abomination upon woodworking mankind should be severely punished… yet, I could not look away, so it came home with me. Maybe the cutter will fit a #151 spoke shave I have. Just had to share!

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Otherwise, just a handful of vintage tools, a Handyman plane, (sorry, DonW!) a #64 spokeshave which I don't have, Viking horse hair bench brush, and another Rabone folding ruler for my collection. all just a tad over $20 today! Hardly justifies the $5 admission, but the hunger continues!
 

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I figured a Harbour Freight aficionado like yourself, B2rtch, would be able to verify whether this is a twin to the HF #33. Any idea? Nope, nothing you can say about this plane would bother me; I bought it for the sacriligeous abomination that it is…
 
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I knew DonW would remind me of his contempt for Stanley Handyman planes! Over the past year or 2 I've avoided buying Handyman's on Don's advice, but it was a package deal with the cool Rabone boxwood ruler, which I also need another one of like a hole in the head. My city is officially devoid of good used planes, I'm getting 1 to 3 planes a week arriving from eBay deals to feed my cravings.
ChuckC: I'm trying to decide on a color to paint ALL my planes…never thought of a flames motif!
 
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Let me know what you think. I hope you love the Handyman. I've got a few I'll give you a good deal on. Even the ones I could actually get to work, which I'll admit is most of them, but the two or three I just wouldn't do what I wanted soured me.

The sad thing is, you know when they made that orange beauty the thought was, "we'll get some suckers to buy this thing".
 
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Bandit: Thanks for the great pics…I appreciate your suggestion about squinty-eyed knockoffs! but, seriously, this plane in design and construction has crossed EVERY line, I mean, no frog, stamped steel sole and lever cap, and the tote and knob bolted right through the bottom! If it was built by an artisan who had no plane, fine it would be cool, but this was undoubtedly mass-produced by labor of questionable age. Then…foisted on the North American market!! I never dreamed I'd say anything positive about HF,but their #33, which I erroneously referred to in my original post, is a nice looking plane compared to this, for only $10!!! I'm mystified…p.s. there will be Stanley Handyman planes coming out of the woodwork for the rest of our lives too, for those who are interested. Just right for planing door bottoms and sticky window sashes. I've got at least 7 of 'em, 3's 4's and 5's.
 
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Poopiekat - I am pretty sure that your orange abomination was designed by someone who has never used a hand plane.

It it were mine - I would use it for target practice and post pictures afterwards.
 
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Richard and Glen: Yeah, I could probably improve the handplane gene pool by obliterating it into smithereens… but heck I could simply spay or neuter it so that it can't propagate.
I too have a critter corner in my shop, where those 'forgotten tools that nobody wants' are kept. This orange one will join my Handymans, Brillant plane, Kunz tools, and Generic 'Made in USA' #4s which may never see the light of day until my executrix hands them over to Habitat for Humanity someday. Rock On!!
 
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The weird part? I have seen a few block planes made like that Cheezie Plane, as well. One even tried to be a "Knuckle-cap" plane, in that the cap iron(all steel??) snapped to lock the plane in place. Same dimple up front for the small knob. $1? I passed it by. I did get an old, rusty Union#4G from the same Antique Store, for $5
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It did clean up nicely, though
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I'd find a early model SB4 and compare the two….
 

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Great pics, Bandit!In my adolescence, I was a coin collector, and there was an emerging interest, (early '60s) in 'Variety/Oddity coins, error coins like mis-struck pennies, die-damaged half dollars, etc. I had quite the collection of stuff, and placed a lot of value on weird stuff that was never in the appraisal books. Some of those proved to be of great value after all. This partially explains my attraction to planes. I GOT to have it if it's weird, unusual, one-off, or simply something nobody else has. I would have bought that knuckle-cap $1 plane and yep, it would have ended up in my Critter Corner… but it would be mine! Heck, in 1974, I bought a 1963 Ford '300'.. yes, a '300', not a Galaxie, not a 'Custom'.... because nobody else had one. I like the popular planes too, but I find the unusual ones irresistible. Like that 'Jordan-DRP&Co plane I wrote about, two weeks ago. DonW helped me immensely on that one.
 
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