Thread: Show off your planes

Ah, nice score SG. Well done. Will watch with interest in how she comes up.

Yes, the Union 8 has a thicker than average blade and overall plenty of heft and a good feel.

Also has good provenance.

Originally Posted by rsser

Ah, nice score SG. Well done. Will watch with interest in how she comes up.

I'll post some piccies here when I get it done.



Also has good provenance.

It is so nice to see that Number 8 son has settled so happily into his new home.
I remember that mushroom front knob with a lot of fondness. Made for big hands and very comfortable in use.
Cheers Ern
SG

Originally Posted by Scribbly Gum

That's a very nice old Union Number 8 that you have there Ern. Lovely thick blades have those.

I have been batching for the last four days and had to go into town to pick up my nearest and dearest from the airport this afternoon. I try to avoid town during the holidays as it is usually bedlam in there.
Had a couple of chores to do first, so left in plenty of time, expecting big crowds in Port Macquarie - it being holidays, and the town being packed with happy campers and all.
Wonder of wonders - the place was quieter than a normal Monday, and I finished all the chores with time to spare. Went for a wander and found this.
Yep it's a Stanley Number 6 type 14 from 1929-1930. Eee-Hah!
Best of all, the rosewood is near perfect.
I can hardly wait to give it a clean and see how it goes.

That's not the one from the little antique store opposite Settlement City ?
He had $90 on it, but was going to sell it for half price on boxing day. I couldn't get there after chrissy

Originally Posted by LifetimeBan

Looks like a 5" shell on top of the cupboard there Woodlee.

Yep that's a big arsed 5" brass shell from a naval gun ,just to the right of it is a WWII 6 pound steel projectile .
I have quite a large collection of ammunition and empty shells of all descriptions , but unfortunately no where to display it at the moment .

Just acquired a no 8 Stanley so I will have to modify the shelf to make a place for it.
Just finished that shelf over the Christmas break.

Kev.

Originally Posted by Thumbthumper

That's not the one from the little antique store opposite Settlement City ?
He had $90 on it, but was going to sell it for half price on boxing day. I couldn't get there after chrissy

The same. I wonder how it lasted this long at that price - must be nearly a month since you saw it Stu. The old gent and his wife are retiring and the store is closing down. Good luck to him.
Cheers
SG

gees
I was up there for chrissy
didn't look for tools obviously

Ok I had a little time this afternoon so started looking more closely at the Stanley Number 6.
I started with the blade and after cleaning off the rust on the front I found no maker's mark. Oddly the blade seemed thicker and heavier than a regular Stanley.
Time to clean the back. Hello there is a maker's mark on the back - the side with the bevel.
It is a Carter.
The mark says Carter Tools Australia.
Now a quick visit to the HTPAA website indicates that this is a rare Carter mark.
I am puzzled by the steel.
It has ripples in the bevelled side that resemble the kind one sees on laminated blades, indicating the softer substrate.
The side that holds the cutting edge is polished as we have come to expect of the steel making up the cutting edge.
I am wondering if Carter ever had laminated steel irons.
The view from the side seems to suggest that this one might be.
Does anyone know a little about Carter plane blades and can shed some light on this.
Thanks in anticipation.
I will start another thread on this topic so as to not hijack this one.

Cheers
SG

Here is my collection of planes, spoke shaves and scrapers.

Any ideas what the heavy duty one is.

The other big one says made in USA.

blue block plane was passed on by my dad (Stanley 70s)

black block plane 110 stanley (no blade)

can't find any marks on spoke shaves except small wood one (red mark with gold writing
but can't read anything.

Large scraper ?D & Payne.Lt Sheffield
Small scraper Henry Disston & Sons ?SA

Chilly, the big one looks like a good doorstop! Be happy to take it off your hands for a tenner or so. Not really mate. From my very limited knowledge of planes, the mark on the blade looks like Mathieson and Sons, and the plane is an infill plane. I'm sure others with more knowledge of the subject will shoot me down, but I thought I might as well offer an opinion early while I still sound like I know what I'm talking about. Not sure, but cleaned up correctly, would probably be worth quite a bit. Don't know where you got it, but good score.

Friends father in law, carpenter of some sort, passed away, I got a bunch of boxes after family had taken what they wanted and these boxes had lots of rough tools and misc fastners and odd stuff. Just starting to clean up and sort out stuff.

Originally Posted by ChillyCanada

...I got a bunch of boxes after family had taken what they wanted and these boxes had lots of rough tools and misc fastners and odd stuff. Just starting to clean up and sort out stuff.

So post photos of the "odd stuff". There may be some normally MIA bits off various tools. I'm thinking depth stops and fences and maybe a cam off a #45 - all stuff that most people would consider useless junk, but people here might identify.

On the other hand, it might be just useless junk...

Cheers, Vann.

I was going to post pics of a wood rebate plane I got on the bay from some one in Telegraph Point, so who could that be. I gave it a scrub with turps, a sharpen and made tenporary wedges for the fence arms. When I get some beech I will do propper wedges. The thing cuts a rebate well enough in hardwood.
While I had the camera out I decided to at last post in show us your planes. When this thread started I only had a few planes so never bothered. Now that the herd has bred up a bit well here it is. All users.
Her indoors wandered in as I was taking the pics and said that is a lot of planes. Then questions like what does this one do and does that one do the same as this. This line continued and I soon broke under the strain and admitted that perhaps I had a few more than were absolutely required. I followed with the line that I could perhaps retire a few if I could replace them with a lesser number of more wide ranging ones like LN and perhaps an odd Norris. I will just have to give that some time and see where it goes.
Anyhoo here are the pics. The good the bad and the ugly.
Regards
John

I like the way the old Makita hasn't been left out.

Here are a few favorites. BTW, my first post here!

George