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Yes, it's cell collapse from the dying process. The last few decades they've just been pushing this stuff through and kiln drying it far too quickly. The end result is that the the cells shrink too...

You've done really well for $165! This is normally a $900 to $1500 hand plane. Very collectible!

It's a later model Spiers - probably from the 1920's or 1930's.

Charles Nurse was predominantly a retailer/reseller who, basically, sold iron planes that were actually made by other makers (most notably Slater), as well as castings and other parts. Likely these...

It's a user-made plane. Can't tell from the picture if it's cast or fabricated but many foundries and dealers sold rough and finished castings for the user to infill and finish off. The plane is...

OK, what you have there is a 5" coffin sided smoother - which is nice to have as I've always personally liked small smoothers. There's just something about them that appeals to me.

The plane is...

Yeah, I agree with others here. Looks like blackbean to me. Beautiful wood, but just too risky. A good deal of those woodcutters back in the day came down with cancer-related illnesses. I've heard...

I guess you missed my post about it only being useful on thin panels :wink:

Yeah, I might get it if ficfac doesn't want it. I already have one though so it's not an absolute necessity to get another - unless of course I want to give one away.

I'll email you soon, David. I'm interested in what your ideas might be. At the very least I think we should link both sites in a kind of "unified Record front" :), but making one site might be a...

Hi Jeremy. I thought it was already up there? I'll take a look and see what I can find.

Cameron.

Bye the way, nice site David. If I'd known you were working on one I probably wouldn't have bothered doing mine. In fact the main reason why I started mine is because there wasn't really anything...

Hi guys. Came here to see where all the links to Record-Planes.com were coming from, and have spent hours just reading the various posts. I should add that it's been a while since I last visited this...

Well, strictly speaking (and from a modern perspective) this is true, however it really depends on what your source is. Tool catalogues of the past often referred to "English boxwood", as well as...

Thanks for the plug Stu. Much appreciated. :)

As far as value-for-money goes, the Mujingfangs are one of the best deals out there. Sure, there are better planes, of course, but they all cost a great deal more.

Yes, $25 is quite a good price for a Falcon #5

Actually your money may not be wasted. The Mujingfang chamfer plane will arris a board, but only one up to 1/4" thick (from memory). So essentially it's only useful for detail work on very thin...

Out of interest, what exactly happened to the GMC bandsaw? If it's just the motor that's burnt out then you could get it rewound and reconditioned for a reasonable price. It'll probably be ten times...

I hope I'm not out of line here (I'm sure an admin will let me know if I am or not and, though I did look, I could not spot the "Announcements" forum) but I wanted to extend an invitation to any...

The planemaker is Booth Brothers and the address is (32) Golden Lane, Dublin. At some stage its possible that the street numbers were changed from 32 to 35, or vice versa. They did that a lot in...

Gunmetal has largely been replaced with newer bronzes - phosphor bronze, silicon bronze, manganese bronze etc. Quite often if you ask a foundry to cast up something out of gunmetal they'll just use...

There's a couple of reviews on <a href="http://www.handplane.com" target="_blank">Handplane Central</a> - one on the palm plane and one on the rebate.

Hope no-one here minds me making such a dramatic entrance to this forum, but I've been watching the past couple of days events unfold with some sadness - though I also understand that there have been...