hand plane opportunity

patriarch qwertyuiop'd:

A numbah 8 isn't just for those of us who can balance one on our galootish fingertips. If your bench is at the proper height, and the sole is waxed-up properlike, you'll find the extra mass of a #8 (not to mention the wider blade) to be more boon than bane. Myself, I keep my type 5 #8 (a pretty darned old 24" jointer plane, Jeff) set to a very fine cut, and use it for final truing of an edge or the face of a board. The bulk of the rough work is done with a jack plane or a fore plane.

A #8 in hand is easily worth three #7's lurking in some relative's garage ;o).

Humbly submitted, O'Deen

snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com (Patrick Olguin) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@posting.google.com:

You do make it sound tempting... Maybe an email to the Merchant of Ashby is in order.

A #ANYTHING is worth planes lurking unused in some relative's garage.

Patriarch

I have a short bench and the workshop isn't much bigger. By the time I've got my #8 up to speed, I have to hit the brakes to stop it flying out through the end door.

I like my #6 though 8-)

I agree with O'Deen. A couple of moths ago I came across an 80% off bin at Woodcraft. There in the bin was a Hock blade that looked to my untrained eye to be the right size for my Miller Falls #18 (a Stanley #6 clone). So I bought it for all of $8 or $9. Got it home and it was too wide - it was for a number 8. What to do, what to do. Went to ebay and found a nice older 8C that was in great shape except for that hole drilled through the sole at the back end (to hang it on the wall I guess). $50 and it came home. So now I have $59 +/- in a nice #8C with a Hock blade (not to mention a real nice older Stanley blade for a spare) and that thing can cut finer full length, full width shavings than any other plane I own. I think stories I had read about O'Deen and seeing him holding that #8 of his on the Blood & Guts page was the inspiration that made me buy the plane on ebay rather than sell the blade on ebay.

Dave Hall

Well, this month's list, from 6 Sept , included: ST24 #8 jointer; a ca.1895 example, with all original parts, including full length iron; no damage to the rosewood, 95% japanning; great worker that only needs to be honed to start peeling off shavings; 24" of mean, wood-eating metal. $165.00

and he alsways has a few items he doesn't put on the list. Joe

Or here for $115:

Joe Gorman wrote in news:cief6g$1246$ snipped-for-privacy@news3.infoave.net:

That's true, Joe. The following already has arrived from that list:

The #4, #6 and #78 in my cabinet are non-list purchases. Sweet tools, all.

Patriarch

Bookmarked for future purchasees. thanks, Joe

Sandy (the proprietor) is a good guy to deal with and really knows old tools (check out his bit brace collection/page). IMO, his prices are the best of all of the internet dealers; not as good as finding

Cheers, Mike