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8th October 2013, 08:28 PM #1
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Nooitgedagt Wooden Plane - Moving Fillister
Went to the local market and had a look at the tools as I normally do. This weekend there seemed to be a few more wooden planes than normal. I bought one for $15 as it looked to be in pretty good nick for its age.
Also bought an F5 1/2 for $85, a bit steep but I love the Falcons so I thought I'd give it a good home in my collection of Aussie made Falcon planes and this one seems to have minimum rust. I will be restoring them all over the next few months when I can find the time and putting them to use in my workshop along with my other Falcons which I use daily and love them.
Anyway after getting this wooden plane home I started to clean it up then noticed it had a makers mark on the front. It was a J. and a N. with a crown above. I searched online for a while then finally found my way back to this forum (I should have just started here) turns out its a Dutch plane maker by the name of Nooitgedagt. I read somewhere that they used this crown logo up until the early 1900's then changed it. I'm now wondering where I can find out more information as to how old it is.
I know some collectors won't really like me taking off the 'Patina' but as I am going to use it like all my planes I needed to do a few things to get it working nicely. Flattening the sole and squaring the edge was the first step. Here's some pictures of the two market finds and the start of the restoration.
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8th October 2013, 08:36 PM #2
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A few light passes and some nice whispy shavings was all it took to flatten most of the sole, I wont worry about the corners as i don't want to remove too much material. I then squared the side edge. Then it was put upright in the Vise to begin cleaning up the front end, this is when I noticed the mark.
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8th October 2013, 08:40 PM #3
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A bit of Danish Oil for the sole and edge. If anyone knows more about the period of time that they were using this J.N. mark I would love to know.
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8th October 2013, 09:10 PM #4
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Flattening the blade took about an hour on my course diamond stone to get it clean across the edge, I think it had a slight hollow which made it a little easier and is probably a good thing. Will spend a bit more time on my water stones to get it nicely polished then hone the bevel and put it to use in my shed. I have a feeling this is going to be used a lot and will be one of those tools I wish I had bought years ago. Much quicker to grab one of these for a one off rebate than it is to set up the router table and choke my lungs with dust. Will post more pics when its finished. I'm tempted to polish the brass depth stop but I might just leave some natural patina.
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8th October 2013, 09:24 PM #5
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Nice find. I have heard good reports on the blades. So far not had the pleasure of laying hands on one. That will be a good worker.
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9th October 2013, 01:33 AM #6
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Cool name, we have a town here in SA called Nooitgedacht. Was going to suggest that it's probably Dutch made but I see you already figured that out by yourself.
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9th October 2013, 06:50 AM #7
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I have a book: Four Centuries of Dutch Planes and Planemakers: Gerrit van der Sterre: 9789074310628: Amazon.com: Books and if I can find some time I will do some research for you. nooitgedagt is still quitte welknown in the Netherlands.
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9th October 2013, 08:10 AM #8
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Well, I'd never have thought.... (sorry that's an in-house piece of humour) Originally Posted by johnnyrsa
Cheers, Vann.Gatherer of rustyplanestools...
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10th October 2013, 07:07 AM #9
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11th October 2013, 09:27 PM #10
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Thanks for those links Paul. I think that was the thread I found when trying to search for what JN meant. I put a few pics of it on my fb page with the title 'Well whataya know' Still waiting for my Dutch reletives to get the joke tho. Maybe I should have titled it. Whooda thought?
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