Thread: Greenslade planes

My question is can anyone give a rough guestimate as to its and secondly did W.Greenslade use its own irons or was it a maker of bodies only, ie is the W&P a replacement?

Age? I did a fair bit of googling about when I found that I had a Greenslade jointer, from memory (can't remember if I found the info on the net or in a mate's tool collector's reference) they closed in the 1930's.

My plane has a Marples blade in it.

I have a few Greenslade moulding planes, and all of them have unmarked irons. They are good quality laminated steel, but no maker's mark.
So these don't answer your question of whether Greenslade themselves made them. I am thinking maybe not. There were a large number of wooden plane manufacturers who specialised in wooden planes and sourced their iron blanks elsewhere.
The fact that you have a Ward is good news as they were premium irons - great steel.
And the Ward may have been the original, or as you suggest, a quality replacement.
Lucky you.
SG