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    Quote Originally Posted by Ball Peen View Post
    In the top photo, bottom shelf, looks like an Aldi smooth plane. I bought one a whim ( $14 )and am quite happy with it. It's set medium fine and used for bulk removal. The steel is surprisingly ok.
    Hi Ball Peen, it is indeed an Aldi plane. I bought it about 3 years ago, based on forum discussions about the quality of the blade. Before I bought the Woden (above) I used it as my smoothing plane. Not quite the best $14 I ever spent (pretty close though), but after less than half an hour of fettling, it worked really well. (mouth was already square, so just had to square the blade, square the chipbreaker and re-shape the underside of the chipbreaker).

    Now I've got the Woden, I might repurpose it as a scrub plane, or maybe keep it as is and buy another one when they come around and either make it into a scrub plane, or use the blade as the basis for making myself a longer bodied wooden plane.

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    Quote Originally Posted by clear out View Post
    These are from Indonesia or Bali.They are often made from very nice timber, similar to Rosewood or Ebony.
    A mate who was organising the making and shipping sets of Balinese carving tools for me when I worked for GW in another life sent me a few as samples.
    He had a finishing shop in Surabaya so they may be from Java.
    They do have a double bevel.
    H.

    Thanks clear out, that's good information to know. I'll definitely leave the bevel as is, then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pmcgee View Post

    A scissor page says "If they’re marked “Foreign” they were imported into England from about 1900-1930"
    That makes sense to me. One of the pages of info on John Shaw & Sons said that while they did make some tools themselves, they imported large quantities from overseas, including the USA and continental Europe.

    Thanks, Mike

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    Default Them be foreign parts Jim lud!

    [QUOTE=pmcgee;1771644]I knew/read that 'foreign' was a code for German ... I figured it was after WW2 ... but ...UNQUOTE


    Of later years one could be forgiven for thinking our political masters have deemed "foreign" to have a very different meaning in Australia to what it used to..!! I'm still looking for Reds under beds. Does this apply to tools too??

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