Thread: Marlin and Shaw, Plane makers

Originally Posted by Virgil

Hello folks.

Make any sense? I got the bones of an old razee jack plane form a friend who rescued it form Council cleanup. Plane is pretty well buggered, no wedge, no iron, almost beyond restoration but it' the first razee in my collection so I'm hanging on to it at least for a little while.

Anyway, I ended up using some citristrip to cut through the gunk at the nose to find the maker. A couple of owners names stamped in but there, under everything else in a stamped cursve style is Marlin (or Martin?) & Shaw. Do they ring a bell with anyone?

Cheerio,
Virg.

Virg,
Quite a commonly found mark on wooden planes.
"Martin & Shaw"
Henry Martin & Thomas Shaw
Birmingham. 1841 - 94
(from Goodman's book, British Planemakers from 1700)

Regards,
Peter

Originally Posted by Virgil

Hello folks.

Make any sense? I got the bones of an old razee jack plane form a friend who rescued it form Council cleanup. Plane is pretty well buggered, no wedge, no iron, almost beyond restoration but it' the first razee in my collection so I'm hanging on to it at least for a little while.

Cheerio,
Virg.

The 'good' thing about the old wooden planes is that everything can go wrong with them...so your chances of finding a coffin smoother of the right width with a badly cracked body and everything else OK aren't too bad.


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