Hand Plane

I don’t have that particular plane, but in most cases, if you remove the blade you’ll see two machine screws attaching the frog to the body. The screws are in slots which allows you to reposition and adjust the frog.

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Listen to Peter. It’s and easy fix. Take it all apart and clean it up and sharpen it. You will learn about it this way.

-- Thos. Angle, Jordan Valley, Oregon

Just pay close attantion while disassembling. Otherwise reassembly can be more of a challenge.

As a counterpoint, I should mention that a really nice, old #3 might pay for several Lie Nielsen or Veritas planes.

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Here is the plane…I have not done any cleaning at all.

As you can kinda see in this picture, the tounge and the frog do not line up parallel. This is with the screws loose and me trying to line them up.

-- T. Nelson

Looks like it’s in pretty good shape. Looking at the photos, I can’t see any reason why the frog shouldn’t move a bit. Maybe a burr or something on the underside? We have a couple of hand-plane experts on LJ – maybe one of them can tell you why it won’t move.

I pulled apart the jack plane that I use the most and the frog is out of alignment almost as much as yours. I’m going to adjust it (it’ll bug me if I don’t), but it’s been cutting fine – I’ve used it a bunch this week.

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ya i have the same plane its a really nice plane. you should be able to adjust it some too. i had to do that on mine and it worked fine. a burr is the only thing i can think of.

Peter asked me to come back and look at this again. This is a late model #3. If you look at the back of the frog, you will see a screw which is on the base but attaches to the frog. This will move the frog backwards and forwards. I’m not sure with out having it in my hand what is going on that you can’t get it to move. It looks very clean and should be easy to adjust.

-- Thos. Angle, Jordan Valley, Oregon

At a risk of stating what you already know (and building on what Thos. stated above), make sure you aren’t assuming that the screw behind the frog should be tightened all the way. That is just an adjustment screw, not intended to be screwed all the way in.

Found out what the problem was. The screw that adjust the forward/backward movement of the frog has that “U” bracket that actually pushes/pulls the frog, that bracket was slightly turned. Adjusted that and now it lines up perfect.

Thanks for everyones help.

-- T. Nelson

That is one sweet plane. I added one to my collection about 3 yrs. ago (for $10.00 I might add). Needed a clean up and sharpening.
Bill