Thread: Stumpy 78

That’s a pretty drastic bit of surgery!

These planes often lose the nose through being dropped on concrete and end up with the front blade mounting becoming a defacto chisel plane but I don’t recall seeing one cut that far back before.

Let us know how it performs!

Ouch!
I guess necessity is the mother, and there is no shortage of 78s & their various clones in the world, but I would have found it difficult to take a hacksaw to a full body - I would have cast about for a snubbed one. As the chief says, broken-nosed 78s are all too common, though finding one quickly just when you want it would probably not happen.

Anyway, no reason it won't work well as a chisel plane, & better it has a useful life in its new guise than rusting away in landfill, which was the fate mine was heading for before I short-circuited that journey!

Cheers,

It works really well thankfully.

I have a really nice 78 that I use quite often. This one was missing everything excpt the knicker and the main blade. You watch me drop my good 78 next weekend though...

Originally Posted by yowie

Has anyone got a use for the cut off bit? Open to ideas.

Door pull.

I would have cut it off so the bullnose part was the chisel plane; you'd still have had a rabbet plane then.

Originally Posted by Bill Houghton

Door pull.

I would have cut it off so the bullnose part was the chisel plane; you'd still have had a rabbet plane then.

I do still have a rabbet plane. Another 78.

I wanted it shorter than the full length as well. That's why I went for the rear end only.

Oh look, here’s one for sale on Fleabay and at a low, low starting price of only 86 dolleri-doos!

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Looks like you may have started a new trend!

Current bid at $148. I’m open to similar offers for mine

Not only does someone want it, but somebody else wants it more??.

Originally Posted by Chief Tiff

.......Not only does someone want it, but somebody else wants it more?? ....

Yowie, just look what you've started, you trend-setter, you!

Before we know it, there won't be an intact 78 left in the world...

Cheers,

IanW this is what I was on about my son iis after ideal for planing redates on door jams to fit new doors to, he's found so many bowed jams he now uses a Circular saw and plane and chisels to straighten them.

I have 2 78s not sure I'd cut either down tho.

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That ebay one's over $200 now Bargain compared to a new one Carbatec #778 Duplex Rabbet Plane | Carbatec NOT.

Originally Posted by 62woollybugger

that ebay one's over $200 now

how in the name of all that’s holy is this even possible?

Originally Posted by Chief Tiff

how in the name of all that’s holy is this even possible?

It does beggar belief, Chief. Maybe our friend is bidding against himself??

And yet...

HERE is an original 78, still with it's nicker, depth stop, fence AND IT'S NOSE! It's the same era; that blade logo was made in 1910 before changing to the "V" logo a year later. Bidding to kick off at a fair starting price of $10.

I'm going to put this one on my watch list as well to see what it ends up going for; my guess is between $75-$100. Which if I'm right means there is no justice or honour left in this world.