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28th August 2020, 01:29 AM #1
Garrett Wade
Any one familiar with that name and the company's products? I came across them while browsing an old book "The Carpenter's Companion" by Gary Chinn and John Sainsbury. Chinn founded Garrett Wade in 1975 and I just took a look to see if they still existed. They do, in Ohio and some of their self-branded tools which include planes and chisels look pretty nice. They also source and sell antique tools.
Does anyone have any experience using their tools and their quality?
Pete
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28th August 2020, 01:56 AM #2
Pete
my experience is from the pre-online ordering of the 1990s so hardly "recent".
Garrett Wade used to have an Australian outlet -- but again that was, I believe, in the 1990s. I believe that Henry Black was involved with the Australian company but I'm not sure in what capacity.
I haven't dealt with the company in many years, so any comments I might make on the quality of their tools or their customer service are not "recent"regards from Alberta, Canada
ian
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28th August 2020, 09:08 AM #3
I bought a Garrett Wade oddjob tool for my son when he started his carpentry apprenticeship:
Garrett wade odd job tool.jpg
I thought it was rather quirky. It is a very old design. this is a video of it in use.
Odd job tool | Garrett wade | Dave Stanton | How to - YouTube
The tool I originally bought from Carbatec and a search there for this product brings up the the special ruler as pictured above , but not the tool itself.
In researching I noticed that Woodpeckers made a one-off tool along the same lines:
Woodpecker's odd job.jpg
Woodpeckers Odd Job & Odd Job XL (Retired OneTIME Tool(R)) - YouTube
A blatant copy (but very smart) so possibly the company no longer produces such items. Pity I would like one and I expect my son lost his example. Most things get lost, or pinched, on a building site.
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28th August 2020, 09:33 AM #4GOLD MEMBER
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Hi Paul. I think both those examples are copied from the original Stanley odd job tool.
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28th August 2020, 09:58 AM #5
Thanks MA
I didn't know that. There must have been a patent in place, for a while at least.
A link:
Tools of Yesteryear - Stanley Odd Jobs - Woodworking Crafts Magazine - woodworkersinstitute.com;
In production for 47 years and discontinued in 1935!!
Here it is in a 1914 catalogue:
Stanley Odd Jobs 1915.jpg
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28th August 2020, 10:11 AM #6GOLD MEMBER
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The catalogue has it as a #1 and I have seen other references to it being their #1 tool. I know there was never a Bedrock #1 plane. Was there a Bailey #1?
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28th August 2020, 11:28 AM #7GOLD MEMBER
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The old man bought a couple of their set out tools, YEARS ago, they will no doubt still be in a crate somewhere, I can remember the catalogue being on the lunch table at the workshop for years. It was quality gear, somewhat like the blue spruce etc nowadays.
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28th August 2020, 11:33 AM #8
Well Stanley did produce a #1 hand plane between 1869 and 1943 see Patrick Leach's idiosyncratic prose here The Superior Works - Patrick's Blood & Gore: Planes #1 -
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According to Mr Leach, #1 planes, including ones with corrugated soles, were also produced by the Ohio Tool Company.
Patrick also makes a Bed rock #1 (labeled as a #601). The Superior Works: Bedrock #601 Smoothing Plane.
As does Lie Nielsen and Quangsheng Luban / Wood River (?)regards from Alberta, Canada
ian
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28th August 2020, 10:34 PM #9
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28th August 2020, 10:35 PM #10GOLD MEMBER
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Garret Wade sell good stuff. It is where Thomas Lie Nielsen worked before going out on his own.
GW sold a locally made #95 copy and when the original plane maker retired , TLN bought the business and became a supplier to GW.
GW still sell LN planes.
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29th August 2020, 02:49 AM #11
So, IanW, you know this because you
A: tried to buy one and Patrick said "sorry, I stopped making them XX years ago" ?
B: someone who had tried to acquire one told you they were no longer available ?
C: you just know Patrick no longer makes them ?
D: is there an option "D" ?
I won't admit to harbouring dreams about acquiring a particular maker's #1, but at USD $695 plus shipping, Patrick's version was a just "a little" bit beyond my reach.regards from Alberta, Canada
ian
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29th August 2020, 03:15 AM #12
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29th August 2020, 07:40 AM #13GOLD MEMBER
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Don’t know but I’d guess that they are Eastern reproductions.
Others sell copies too:
Axminster Rider No. 60 1/2 Deluxe Block Plane - Fine Tools Australia
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29th August 2020, 08:30 AM #14
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29th August 2020, 08:39 AM #15
Gavin, I think we're all starting to get confused. This digression started with MA's question "did Bailey make a #1?", to which the answer is "yes, from 1869 to 1943". Then it switched to a 601, i.e., a Bedrock type #1, which Stanley never bothered to make, but others have, including Mr. Leach. A 60 1/2 is a very different animal....
IW
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