an Rhykenologist had to ask the question and investigate :-)

Glad you found out, it has been one of my headaches for a long time ;-)

-- Tom, Odense

You did all that to a freinds plane. Hate to see what you would do if you hated someone !
A real LJ would put it back together after the test ! LOL

-- "My mission in life - make everyone smile !"

You know, Dennis, your post here got me to thinking, unfortunately. Wooden planes, in a whimsical way, of course, are a lot like people. Some of them warp and get twisted and some of them stay perfectly strait. Some of them do a lifetime of useful work and some of them just sit on a shelf and get neglected and do not do much of anything. Do you ever know whether or not we ever will know the why of these things? I don’t know. Sometimes a plane goes through life and never feels the joy of having its iron sharpened to a superb degree and some of them always seem to have a sharp edge no matter what. I do know one thing, Dennis, for some reason you always get me to thinking about all kinds of things. Thank you for posting the things that you do. I just came in from the patio for a moment to take care of some personal business and now I will go back out and think about wooden planes and people. It has always amazed me at how people’s minds often go off on tangents. I think it’s a lot of fun, and quite healthy as well, for our minds to go off on tangents like this. I have no doubt that you enjoyed this investigation of the old wooden plane and so did I through your posting of it. Thanks for the post.

-- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau

Dennis seeing as you are a great thinker I would ask you something that has puzzled me for years before they had the first lathe how did they turn all of the parts to make the first one (hope this translates ok)
Best regards
Trevor

-- God created wood that we may create. Trevor East Yorkshire UK

What did you expect to find?.............Termites? Forthwith, I think you should cremate the dead beast (firewood?), and give it a decent burial….........(ashes for the flower beds)?

You could make some lye-soap out of the ashes, give it a clean record. I notice you gave it the tribute of a moment, (perhaps too many moments from the plane’s point of view), of silence, dismembering it with quiet handtools, which I assume you used soas to not awaken your fair lady.

.........you probably chortled, rubbing your hands in glee, as you dismembered another poor soul that became the object of your devilish ministrations…......in your little chamber of horrors….....

Do you lock the door, before attending to your victim, afraid some passer by might become a witness to your macabre pursuits, or keep it open, hoping to entice another poor soul, into your lair…......?

Actually, what I want to know is….......did you dismember it while it was alive, or did you show mercy and kill it first….............’tis a test of your moral fiber….......

I don’t think I will wait for the answer…...........I will just think the best of you…...........

But being a fellow surgeon…........it is a proper question…....................(-:

Jim

-- Jim, Anchorage Alaska

Now Trevor. That’s not nice, here Dennis has solved one of the mysteries of the universe and
you’ve just turned around and posed an even harder question ?

;-)

(I think the two of you are just sneaking arround trying to give the rest of us a headache ?)

-- Glen, Vernon B.C. Canada

You’ll have to forgive me it’s nearly 1a.m. here & my brain is way past thinking about it I thought I’d pass it on to some one else

-- God created wood that we may create. Trevor East Yorkshire UK

First I thougth you had a new tool or had an idea or plan for it.

I was so excited to see what you were going to make with it, but now I appreciate that it came to provide something positive!

-- Randy "You are judged as much by the questions you ask as the answers you give..."

You know, in the last picture it looks like there’s just enough left to build a grease box. I see the main body of the box and two lids.

-- My broker promised me he would treat my money as if it were his own. Trouble is, he did.

Hello there and excuse my change of langauge just have to say a few danish word to a new Dane
velkommen ombord på skibet Lumberjock Tom (tonøsa) sender en Pm til dig :-)

Jim : don´t worry it was dead and been for a very long time I tryed with the startcable but no response
and even the iron was desolving heavely from the agressive airborne moisturevirus allso called rustygitis

jusfine : there is plans for the leftovers

Trevor : try to think bow and two nails and you have the answer

Glen : just be prepared and have a realy big glass of asperin near you it will come to you before you know it

Hullawawreck : thank´s for looking by hoped it had brought you smile instead getting you frustrated
by thinking too much ….LOl

Canadien : the gluepot is already cooking and the clamps is oil´d and lined up
then we will see what tomorrow bring

Johnston : wait and see :-)

take care
Dennis

Rustygitis….......as good as dead…............

Jim

-- Jim, Anchorage Alaska

I hope to suffer the same fate when my horn goes missing ;)

-- Galootish log blog, http://www.timberframe-tools.com

Dennis,

I took some boxwood from an old wooden plane that was missing an iron and used it to turn some custom knobs for a couple of marking gauges. Best part, the wooden plane and the marking gauges (total of 4 marking gauges) were all found in a box of other miscellaneous junk that I paid $5 for the whole box. I then turned around and sold 2 of the marking gauges for $15.00 plus shipping. I sold several of the other pieces from the box for another $10 and I kept the 2 nicest of the marking gauges for myself. I use one as is and converted the other into a cutting gauge. Not counting labor, I had a profit of $20 and got two functional marking gauges for my trouble. I wish all of my adventures with old tools went so well. Anyway, please tell me that if this poor little plane had an iron in it that you saved the iron and intend to make a new plane to fit it into.

Doc

-- Hey, woodworking ain't brain surgery. Just do something and keep trying till you get it. Doc

Dennis What did they turn the nails on?

-- God created wood that we may create. Trevor East Yorkshire UK

Pssst. Don’t tell Mads, he’ll have a fit.

-- Martyn -- Boxologist, Pattern Juggler and Candyman of the visually challenging. http://www.theartofboxes.com