Thread: Some Turner hand planes.

A-ha, so that's where I left my box of planes 'n things. Thanks for finding them. You can return them to me at the following address:



Cheers, Vann

ps. You jammy so-and-so

Welcome ARB, nice haul you got there. I have one of those large slick chisels like your one on the right there, mine is a Ward.

#*>?#%!!

you found that lot in the bin!! There are plenty of people on the forum that have been carefully crafting tool kits for years who have just jumped in the car to rifle through every skip in the neighbourhood.

Welcome Mick,
I have never heard of Turner planes! But there's a lot of Australian tools that I wasn't aware of until recently. What have you found out about them?

Toby

Originally Posted by ARealBoy

Hello.

I found this site while googling Turner hand planes.

A few weeks back I spotted some old chairs poking out of a skip. I stopped and in the skip was a box with some old handtools. I knocked on the door and the young lady there said I could have anything I wanted.

This is what was in the box

Thank you Mick for being a skip diver - and highly observant obviously.

Who can believe stuff like this gets treated so shabbily? At least dogs have the RSPCA.

In any case, Scroungers Anonymous meet online every second Thursday ... except when there's a roadside collection.
Remember - the first step is admitting you have a problem.
The second step is making some shelves to keep it in.

Well done.
Paul.

Peter finds a truckload of saws on the side of the road (some really nice ones too), and Mick finds a box of nice tools, and Paul has to buy tools from the US?
Somebody point pmcgee to the nearest trash heap.

It is just more East-coast discrimination against the West

TURNER INDUSTRIES Ltd TOOLS

Toby

Originally Posted by ARealBoy

Hello.

I found this site while googling Turner hand planes.

A few weeks back I spotted some old chairs poking out of a skip. I stopped and in the skip was a box with some old handtools. I knocked on the door and the young lady there said I could have anything I wanted.

This is what was in the box

A Turner 220, two Turner number 4's and a Stanley number 5 with a Turner iron and chip breaker. An old rebate plane finishes the lot... there was a nice group of old chisels too. Plus some turner bits and pieces....

Anyway, you have a great site here and I'm enjoying reading the old posts.

Mick.

Mick,
there are lots of collectors of Turner planes that will want to know how they can add that 220 block plane to thier collection. Many will only have that one missing.
They are more than just difficult to find.....not many are about!
Although I don't collect the Turner planes and usually sell them when I find them, I have collected planes VERY enthusiastically for about 20 years, and in that time I have seen only a couple of the 220 block planes for sale.

Great find!

Regards,
Peter
PS,
I did keep one Turner plane...

only to repeat myself from the other thread Mick, awesome find and incredible luck...


Peter that is one sparkly looking No7, i love it!



cheers
chippy

Peter, were those handles made at the Nunawading factory?
Cheers,
Jim

Thanks for the welcome fellas. And yes I was stoked to find some free old tools ... and even more excited when I saw that with a bit of care I can hopefully get them going again.

Vann... I never win anything so I did feel jammy.. lol.

Claw Hama ... This one is marked Ward ... I've never had a BIG chisel and it's cleaning up nicely.

Berlin... *^*^()(& was what I thought when I saw them. You can imagine what I thought when the lady said I could just have them...

TobyC.. I did know about Turner planes because I can remember thinking how cool the handles looked when I was at school in the 70's. I think I may need to get some more.

Paul... I come from a loooong line of tip scroungers. I live in a very rural area and the tip is a scroungers paradise. Just you, the dog and the crows and you can pick away in peace. The skip I found the tools in was in Armidale btw.

Peter... Oh dear! That is a GREAT photo of a beautiful looking tool!
I'm not a collector and these planes have definitely been used but as I said above to Toby I think I would like to have the full set myself now... lol. I sound like a collector, don't I? Maybe I've been bitten?

Thanks again Chippy and everyone else for the welcome.

Glad to be here.

Mick.