Thread: Garrett Wade

Pete
my experience is from the pre-online ordering of the 1990s so hardly "recent".

Garrett Wade used to have an Australian outlet -- but again that was, I believe, in the 1990s. I believe that Henry Black was involved with the Australian company but I'm not sure in what capacity.

I haven't dealt with the company in many years, so any comments I might make on the quality of their tools or their customer service are not "recent"

I bought a Garrett Wade oddjob tool for my son when he started his carpentry apprenticeship:

Garrett wade odd job tool.jpg

I thought it was rather quirky. It is a very old design. this is a video of it in use.

Odd job tool | Garrett wade | Dave Stanton | How to - YouTube

The tool I originally bought from Carbatec and a search there for this product brings up the the special ruler as pictured above , but not the tool itself.

In researching I noticed that Woodpeckers made a one-off tool along the same lines:

Woodpecker's odd job.jpg

Woodpeckers Odd Job & Odd Job XL (Retired OneTIME Tool(R)) - YouTube

A blatant copy (but very smart) so possibly the company no longer produces such items. Pity I would like one and I expect my son lost his example. Most things get lost, or pinched, on a building site.

Regards
Paul

Hi Paul. I think both those examples are copied from the original Stanley odd job tool.

Originally Posted by Mountain Ash

Hi Paul. I think both those examples are copied from the original Stanley odd job tool.

Thanks MA

I didn't know that. There must have been a patent in place, for a while at least.

A link:

Tools of Yesteryear - Stanley Odd Jobs - Woodworking Crafts Magazine - woodworkersinstitute.com;

In production for 47 years and discontinued in 1935!!

Here it is in a 1914 catalogue:


Stanley Odd Jobs 1915.jpg

Regards
Paul

The catalogue has it as a #1 and I have seen other references to it being their #1 tool. I know there was never a Bedrock #1 plane. Was there a Bailey #1?

The old man bought a couple of their set out tools, YEARS ago, they will no doubt still be in a crate somewhere, I can remember the catalogue being on the lunch table at the workshop for years. It was quality gear, somewhat like the blue spruce etc nowadays.

Originally Posted by Mountain Ash

The catalogue has it as a #1 and I have seen other references to it being their #1 tool. I know there was never a Bedrock #1 plane. Was there a Bailey #1?

Well Stanley did produce a #1 hand plane between 1869 and 1943 see Patrick Leach's idiosyncratic prose here The Superior Works - Patrick's Blood & Gore: Planes #1 -
#8
According to Mr Leach, #1 planes, including ones with corrugated soles, were also produced by the Ohio Tool Company.

Patrick also makes a Bed rock #1 (labeled as a #601). The Superior Works: Bedrock #601 Smoothing Plane.
As does Lie Nielsen and Quangsheng Luban / Wood River (?)

Originally Posted by ian

.....
Patrick also makes a Bed rock #1 (labeled as a #601)....

MADE is the word, Ian - it's been discontinued. So you'll have to buy one of the others.

Garret Wade sell good stuff. It is where Thomas Lie Nielsen worked before going out on his own.
GW sold a locally made #95 copy and when the original plane maker retired , TLN bought the business and became a supplier to GW.
GW still sell LN planes.

Originally Posted by IanW

MADE is the word, Ian - it's been discontinued. So you'll have to buy one of the others.

So, IanW, you know this because you

A: tried to buy one and Patrick said "sorry, I stopped making them XX years ago" ?

B: someone who had tried to acquire one told you they were no longer available ?

C: you just know Patrick no longer makes them ?

D: is there an option "D" ?




I won't admit to harbouring dreams about acquiring a particular maker's #1, but at USD $695 plus shipping, Patrick's version was a just "a little" bit beyond my reach.

Originally Posted by hiroller

Garret Wade sell good stuff. It is where Thomas Lie Nielsen worked before going out on his own.
GW sold a locally made #95 copy and when the original plane maker retired , TLN bought the business and became a supplier to GW.
GW still sell LN planes.

So are the planes they sell branded as GW made by them? The GW range appears to be restricted to a #4 and a low angle block, both with brass detailing. The block plane looks remarkably similar to the LN model.
Pete

Don’t know but I’d guess that they are Eastern reproductions.
Others sell copies too:
Axminster Rider No. 60 1/2 Deluxe Block Plane - Fine Tools Australia

Originally Posted by ian

So, IanW, you know this because you

A: tried to buy one and Patrick said "sorry, I stopped making them XX years ago" ?

B: someone who had tried to acquire one told you they were no longer available ?

C: you just know Patrick no longer makes them ? ......

None of the above

Originally Posted by ian

.....D: is there an option "D" ? ..... .

Yes, I read it here.

Gavin, I think we're all starting to get confused. This digression started with MA's question "did Bailey make a #1?", to which the answer is "yes, from 1869 to 1943". Then it switched to a 601, i.e., a Bedrock type #1, which Stanley never bothered to make, but others have, including Mr. Leach. A 60 1/2 is a very different animal....