Another what the heck is it?

Yup, looks like a shooting-board plane, although I’m not familiar with the model.

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Don’t know for sure but first guess would be something like trimming type for printing.

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Not being an old plane guy, I don’t know what a shooting board plane is or how it’s used. But, that’s and odd, to my eyes, plane for sure. Wonder if anything fits into that I beam cavity?

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I’d say some kind of shooting plane. I’d say it had a rail to slide on. If you decide to sell it before you find out what it’s worth, let me know. ;-)

You got a great deal.

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I’m not so sure anything rides in the cavity on the side. The raised number would interfere with it, unless it had a narrower dado in it to make room for it.

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No idea who the manufacturer is, but that has to be for ‘shooting’.

Here is a video review of a Lie-Nielsen cousin…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdZJf5o-SGs&feature=fvwrel

edit: $15 for both? wow…

The unidentified one looks to be a very specialized plane for a task that I do not know. In your pictures, it appears to have a very narrow blade on it. Could you measure it and tell us how wide it is?

It is a shooting plane type, and looks as though it should be mated with some kind of matched guide piece, but I cannot imagine it being used for everyday shooting board tasks as the cutting surface appears to be too narrow. That would make it only valuable for shooting with very thin stock. Compare that with the LN shooting plane which has a 2 3/8” blade, which is ideal for a shooting plane, and one can see why such a narrow blade is not a good choice for a run of the mill shooting board system.

At 15 bucks for the pair, you got a helluva deal!

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Yeah you dont need that fist one, I’ll do you a favor and give you $30 to take it off your hands. Double your money? Good deal right?

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It is a narrow blade. 1 and 1/4”. That I beam looking slot makes me think that the plane rode on a track, like a shooting plane where the plane moves instead of the stock, but that’s only a guess. It seems too heavy to use as a hand plane.

I found a name on the blade. Henry Disston and sons , Philadelphia

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Thanks for posting that video, Arminius. Now I understand a shooting board plane.

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Looks much like a different model but much like this:

http://www.vintagetools.net/printer-block-shoot-board-plane

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Now thats just cool

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