buck brothers planes

[– Colonel –]

A flat sole, maybe?

[John Thomas]

=?UTF-8?B?4oCTIENvbG9uZWwg4oCT?= wrote in news:2006012810114075249-nobody@verizonnet:

Even better, a plane that's pretty much ready to go out of the box, vs one that may never be, no matter how much work you put into it.

The BB (jack) that I've got (before I knew any better) has bad depressions at the mouth. And that's the good part of it.

[Enoch Root]

Hear! I got the same plane, and it's true that the mouth is *sunken* into the sole of the plane.

Even better (worse!) it appears the forces required to stamp it out were enough to cause a (guessing from memory) 1/32" concavity along the length of the sole that is just a little to much to sand out... at least, I'm not looking forward to it. After 20 minutes of patient pushing only 1/2" near the ends were touched and I gave up.

Get a used old stanley. I got one that'd been flattened on the sole, and it only took a few minutes to correct the rounded result. :) It's not a collector (despite the 2 patent dates), needed a new blade, had a "transitional" lever cap, and some clever repairs to a split knob (wires wrapped into carven slots, ends twisted together, and soldered all around), but it works and cost all of $12.

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[Ba r r y]

I have yet to have a Veritas plane need more than a simple fine honing of the blade and removal of cosmolene to get outstanding results.

Barry