My first plane restore #6 Bailey

Fine looking restoration, Bill. Welcome to the “I like ‘em shiny” club!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Beautiful job, Bill. Looks almost new, now.

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-- 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

Looks so good I have a hard time believing that that’s your first one. :) Excellent job. I’m in the middle of restoring a few planes myself, hope they look that nice when I’m done!

-- Lucas, "Someday woodworks will be my real job, until then, there's this http://www.melbrownfarmsupply.com"

Thanks Charlie and wreck. It was fun to do. I did my little 60 block plane too. No pics. I likes em shiney and dirty too. I found a guy who is supposed to be sending some, what he calls “real” japanning materials but I don’t have anymore planes to use it on. I guess I’ll have to shop around for a few wrecks to try it on. I was going to buy some from a felloew LJ’er but couldn’t really afford it(not that his prices were too high) so I had to come up with a different solution, my usual solution to these types of problems, do it myself.

-- I was born at a very young age, as I grew up, I got older.

Yep, it’s my first try. Thanks.

-- I was born at a very young age, as I grew up, I got older.

If the first pic is the ‘before’ I would have left it alone, but dang, it’s purty afterwards!

I picked up an $8 WARDS MASTER (Cheap Stanley I suppose) and while it didn’t look bad the adjusting screws on the frog were really rusty, to the point where the threads feel iffy when you screw them in and out. Also missing the knurled adjusting nut. I also picked up a Bailey No. 6 for twenty bucks that looks like it sat in standing water at some point. I messed up the tote screw heads, and had to drill the head off the front screw, ruining a perfectly fine rosewood tote in the process. Then the long threaded rod for the back screw twisted off at the base and I’m in the process of trying to drill it out without messing up the threads in the plane itself. NO MORE CHEAP RUSTY PLANES!

I’m “cleaning up” a No. 3, but when I’m done it definitely will NOT look as purdy as what you’ve done. Wow!

-- Jim Maher, Illinois

very nice. Its good to see the ol’ girl shined back up.

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

Looks great!

I am debating on mine. It is also a #6 and is corrugated. How much shine or removal of the old patina should I do? I guess this post is for shiny it up. Maybe I should just do it and see how it goes. Anyone have objections of shining it up? Everything else on the #6 is ready to go. Because of the significant lost of the original japanning, it have already painted it. All the rust on sides and bottom have been removed. It is just not very shinning at this time.

-- I'll be a woodworker when I grow up. HHHOPKS

Thanks everybody. Like I said, this was my very first one and the only advice to anyone else who is contemplating doing a restore is to, like you said hhhopks, is to just do it. I waffled too on doing it and just went for it one day. I said it will either turn out good or it will turn out bad and I’ll have to do it over again. I don’t have to do it over again.
Here is a link to the spray paint I used on it. It looks very thick on the plane that doesn’t really show in the pics. http://www.vhtpaint.com/products/rollbarchassis/

Thanks for all of the compliments.

-- I was born at a very young age, as I grew up, I got older.