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1st April 2019, 07:22 PM #16SENIOR MEMBER
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You’ve got a type 13 or 14 there, depending on whether there is a raised ring under the knob or not, and it dates to between 1925 and 1930.
Personally, if I were you, I’d not add the red paint to behind the logo - your plane didn’t have paint there when it was new, and that’s part of its history, along with the sweetheart blade.
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1st April 2019, 07:38 PM #17
Looks like you got yourself a Type 12 Sweetheart, made sometime between 1919 and 1924. THIS link is one of the best for identifying Stanley planes, and also has invaluable restoration information.
Regarding trying to match the japanning; if I have to strip it all off I just spray it with engine enamel from SuperRep-autoco. It's harder than normal paint and has a good depth of gloss. But as much as I can I leave it alone; I just remove any rust scale and hit whatever is left with Feronite; which blackens up nicely anyway.
The back of the chip breaker should be blued; gun blue is easily available, easy to apply but looks awful if you can't follow simple instructions to the letter.... DAMHIK...
CRC 3-36 is my go-to spray on rust preventative.Nothing succeeds like a budgie without a beak.
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1st April 2019, 07:57 PM #18
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1st April 2019, 08:42 PM #19Senior Member
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1st April 2019, 08:48 PM #20Senior Member
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The back of the chip breaker was blued but sadly there was alot of rust scale on the back of the chip breaker and lost alot of it while removing that, I used to have a gun bluing kit from when I re-blued the barrel of an M96 Swedish Mauser but that kit is long gone now but not hard to get them from our local sports shop and that is something I can do at a later date as for rust preventative I am a big fan of CRC lanocote it is a damn good lubricant and it is a real good rust preventer as it contains lanolin
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2nd April 2019, 07:43 PM #21Senior Member
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A small update on the progress, I checked my repair job on the tote after it had been in the clamp for 24 hours give or take a couple of hours and the glue has held so that was a relief last night I removed the unsightly paint splatter off the front knob and cut off a small piece of thread on the end of the front knob screw as it had been stripped by someone that had tried to cinch up the knob after the wood had shrunk. After doing that it still would not cinch up so I stuck a washer under the screw head and it tightened right up so I picked up a pack of brass washers on my way home from work along with some rustoleum spray paint in matt black which will be getting swapped out for semi gloss black after seeing some of the original japanning when I removed the frog tonight, also picked up some shellac for the tote and front knob which they are cleaned up, sanded and ready to have the shellac done
Pics of the repair to the tote have to love titebond3, for the prep work I used the side of the chisel to scrape then sanded with 120grit, 240grit and 000 synthetic steel wool to finish it off very pleased with the results of the repair noticeable in some spots but barely noticeable in other areas
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The frog Ready for clean up she's a bit yucky but used a bit of degreaser on it and alot of that gunk came right off
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2nd April 2019, 09:18 PM #22
That tote repair is fine. It's not perfect (but that's hard to achieve), but a plane from the 1920s is allowed a few battle scars. It's more important to look cared for than to look brand new.
Cheers, Vann.Gatherer of rustyplanestools...
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3rd April 2019, 08:18 AM #23Senior Member
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3rd April 2019, 06:43 PM #24Senior Member
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First coat of Shellac went on last night
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3rd April 2019, 08:55 PM #25Senior Member
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Some more pics from tonight's little bit of work
Frog finally cleaned up
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All brass bits cleaned and paint work under way I am cleaning up and prepping then painting first coat only and doing a section of the plane body each day tonights bit was around the front knob which got fully stripped when taking off the horrible paint splatter a couple of days ago, I am brushing the paint on with a 6mm bevel paint brush after discharging small amounts of paint from the spray can of rustoleum into a lid so I can put the paint where I want it without having to use masking tape or over spray
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5th April 2019, 05:49 PM #26Senior Member
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The old girl is all finished and it got to shave some wood after the many years of neglect it had, welcome back to life old girl
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5th April 2019, 11:29 PM #27
You would have to be feeling happy with that plane. Its scrubbed up well. I have an old No 3 very similar to that just not so shiney. I use it a lot.
Regards
John
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6th April 2019, 05:00 AM #28Senior Member
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