Thread: Show off your planes

Pride and joy

Nice one TeeJay. Got your dollar's worth out of that!

Pic below of my modest collection.

Stanley 4: a gift from a friend 30 years ago when I bought the ..
Stanley 5.5 from new; now has a Hock iron and chip breaker
Stanley 6: acquired 2nd hand a few weeks ago and restored to my not so exacting standards
Veritas LA block
Mujingfang euro style
Mujingfang HA palm smoother

Mallet at rear with spotted gum head and English Ash handle.

Collection soon to be supplemented by a Veritas LA jack plane (going on Derek's review - thanks mate).

Bigshed.
I have the David Fink book also and made a smoothing plane out of a piece of jarrah from a verandah post.

The blade I used came from an old wooden smoothing plane which had a split side.

Although I left it in rough form it worked fine as a 1st effort and only took a couple of days to make. The jigs took longer than the plane.

Hi all,
I just signed up.
I am blown away by this thread.
About half way through looking at the pics I got a vague feeling I have not had for years. (No, no not the obvious one, I get them all the time), but an urge to own a Norris smoother. "When I were a lad" they were the be all and end all of bench planes.

Did I miss one in the pics,anybody got one?

Regards,
Bill.

....an urge to own a Norris smoother. "When I were a lad" they were the be all and end all of bench planes.

Did I miss one in the pics,anybody got one?

Hi Bill

A hearty welcome to the forum! Lots of great discussions about technique here, and lots of fun gloating as well.

I have a few infills, some I built and some I restored. No Norris (unfortunately). Will a restored Spiers do instead?

Tassie Blackwood infill and Jarrah tote. It was all a bit of fun really (it was really derelict and unrecognisable as a Spiers when I got it).



Regards from Perth

Derek

Well .... I've finally got a picture to replace Bo Derek in the workshop!
Is this a sign of age, replacing wet tshirts with infill?
Fletty

Originally Posted by fletty

Well .... I've finally got a picture to replace Bo Derek in the workshop!
Is this a sign of age, replacing wet tshirts with infill?
Fletty

Well it does show form and curves that you can handle without being slapped and arrested

Thanks for that Derek. You have done a beautiful job there.

That is just about as I remember the Norris, actually so the two makers must have been producing very similar stuff.

Your choice of timber was inspired too, as if you hadn't said I would have guessed it was the original rosewood.

Seeing the photos of the timber moulding planes brought back a few memories too. In the late 1950's early 60's we had a cabinet that had at least (say seven or eight to the foot of shelf space) say 120 of them. Mostly out of beech, and a few with boxwood inlays. They were just gathering dust as the spindle moulder had left them literally on the shelf.

Regards
Bill.

Hey, I'm an apprentice again! Now there's a thought.

Thanks for the kind words Bill.

Incidentally, the Norris' were based on the Spiers, I believe. Norris is still the one that most want to own. But Spiers have their followers too.

If you are struggling to sleep, you can read the article on discovering and rebuilding this Spiers at http://www.wkfinetools.com/tRestore/...ther/index.asp

Regards from Perth

Derek

Here are my planes, as I recently sold in my old Stanley styles planes and I am glad to report my new HNT Gordon's have arrived. I also have a Veritas scrub plane

My ringed gidgee set with a touch of sapwood so far is a curved sole spokeshave, a mallet and two smoothing planes.

The reason why their are two smoothers is because the original smoother on the left was not up to Terry's high standards (it developed a hairline crack during manufacture) so he has given it to me for free and replaced it with the second smoother on the right which also just stunning.

The second photo is of my to be completed trying plane also in ringed gidgee.

My experience with purchasing these planes from Terry has been exceptional, and I cannot recommend him, his company and his planes highly enough. Just excellent.

I look forwarding to taking more photographs and a small review.

Nice looking planes you have there Thumbsucker.

Stunning set! Wish you much pleasure in using them.

Regards from Perth

Derek

Okay so now I went out and bought one, what do I do now ???

Okay so now I went out and bought one, what do I do now ???

Not all cars are the same.
Not all tablesaws are the same.
Not all women are the same!
Not all handplanes are the same.

That one is decidely different. The HNT Gordon will work straight out of the box - 0 minutes set up time. This one will take about three months and still never work as well. I'd take it back. Life is too short.

My apologies for causing disappointment.

Regards from Perth

Derek