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  1. 18th January 2011, 08:17 PM #1
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    Default Carter hand planes - specifically the blades - Your help needed.

    Ok I had a little time this afternoon so started looking more closely at a Stanley Number 6 that I bought yesterday.
    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.


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  3. 19th January 2011, 09:12 AM #2
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    A short bath in citric acid will reveal any laminations.
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    Possible that they used some laminated blade but cant quite see from the pics. ripples could just be a defect or corrosion patterns.

    I read somewhere that they used sweedish steel for their blades.
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  5. 24th January 2011, 08:36 PM #4
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    corrosion patterns I reckon ,

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    I have seen that on an old Matheson blade I cleaned up. I thought it may have been retempered as it had a black look to it. Whatever it is it keeps a good edge.
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  7. 26th January 2011, 09:38 AM #6
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    Precision ground O-1 tool steel and some effort hardening and tempering should make a fine blade.
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