Greetings, I just added #4 and #5 Stanley planes to my tool collection. I'm doing the usual tuning stuff with glass plate and sandpaper. Come time to put things back together, I discover that the front edges of the levers aren't square to the sides. On both planes, the levers grip cattywumpus across the top curve of the cap irons. Is this a defect or a feature? Yes, I DAGS, but nothing useful turned up. I've put a request in at my library for Sam Allen's "Plane Basics."
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20 years ago