There was a time...

FWIW, when my granddaughter got her first apartment, I got her one of these:

Should help her appreciate the value of decent tools in no time :-)

But yes, a good idea. To which I'd add a 14V drill/driver. And a bradawl.

That was a good opportunity for me to buy new tools for myself and pass on my used ones to my kids.

Reminds me I still have several old tools from Dad.

This is still usable and may be an antique

I have the 2 man saw that my Grandad and dad used to cut several trees down in Grandpa's front yard . That had to be at least 60-65 years ago . Got a few old hand planes like yours but have no idea of their history , got 'em at yard sales .

Dad was a ship fitter in WWII with critical skills defferment. He did things like build bunk beds and pointed out on the ship hulls there were few straight surfaces. Every thing was done by hand. The plane might have come from those days.

I served on a DD destroyer that was built in the latter part of WWII , The only place there MIGHT be woodwork of that caliber would be Officers Country . Crew bunks were made of aluminum tube , rope , and canvas .

As kids, we ruined many of my Dad's tools - sadly -

- some of which were certainly _his_ Dad's .. :-( .. a large carpenters chest / trunk that would have taken 2 strong men to move, if it had much in it. I've seen similar ones over-the-years - for some reason they're black on the outside ; natural wood colour inside with custom holders inside the lid for saws and framing square ; a half-tray or 2 half-trays for organizing smaller tools like chisels and planes and plumb bobs and chalk lines ; bigger open space in the bottom for clamps and whatever else .. The wooden screw clamps would be nice to have kept - not for any special value - but as a keep-sake. I also remember the nail-puller - a tool un-changed to this day ! ... I'll remember more, once the whiskey kicks in .. John T.

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I have one like that, from my grandad. British made. I don't know how to handle it, too many adjusting knobs.

Exactly, I have a chest like that, not that heavy or big. One tray inside. My granddad worked in the ship building industry, but metal, not wood. He was British. He must have purchased that chest for "pleasure", not for the job. The tools are beautiful. It has a paper booklet or something with some photos. I don't have it here to post a photo.

I have several planes, including a spokeshave my father bought me for a project as a kid. I use them several times a year.

"Scary sharp sharpening" makes keeping them sharp feasible.

I don't think the normal bench planes are too hard to learn - some of the exotic combination planes .. no thanks ..

The picture isn't very clear, but assuming the pegboard spacing is one inch, that appears to be a #4 sized plane, pre-1909. Not particularly valuable.

The "collectors " can drive the price up for certain makes / models / vintage .. whatever .. but most can be had pretty cheaply these days . .

Certainly, rare planes (and the #10 is rather rare) can sell for a premium. Pre-internet (1996)[*] prices for that vintage #10 were in the $200 to $450 US dollar range (depending on age). (the one at that listing that sold for $280 CAD, was manufactured before 1902).

Prices have dropped considerably once E-bay provided a global sales channel.

Most of her outfit came from Harbor Freight. A small Black-n-decker battery drill/screwdriver(reversable) with just about any size inserts in flat or phillips. Socket wrenches, neednose plyers and so on. Small hammer. She's been giving it all a workout putting furnishings together.

Yup! I added a small dremmel and a small woodworking kit (has a bradawl in it). Charlotte liked helping me and Dad refinish furniture as a kid. I didn't get her a sander but she can add that if she finds a nice project piece and needs it.

I didn't add any wood stains because they'd need to match what she wants (grin).

We did some of that too. Her grandfather's and Father's tools are mixed in there along with some of my woodworking tools.