New to me plane, Stanley 7G

OK, replying to myself but I found the patent for the plane mechanism,

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It's a Stanley "Gage" (hence the 'G7') Jointer plane, based on a design developed by John Porcius Gage's company 'Gage Planes & Tools' before Stanley bought them out. It was later further developed into the Stanley No. 7 & 7C Jointer Planes, with an improved blade and cap iron mounting. The No. 7 had a smooth bottom, the 7C was corrugated.

From the amount of relief on both sides of the blade's cutting edge, it looks like someone was using it as a 'scrub' plane at some point in time.

Len

I've gotten a few 6's and 7's that had about the same relief on the sides. Could they have been doing it for speed with the jointers and counting on their smoothers for the perfectly flat surface by just slightly rounding the corners on the smoother? Joe

because Stanley bought the company that made these planes and and after a time phased this design out. The G statnds for Gage, a would-be competitor to Stanley. For the short time that Stanley produced planes using the Gage design, they used numbers like your plane has, i.e., the regular bench plane size designation with a G prefix.

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Sounds reasonable to me.

Len

Thanks to all. Once I found the patent number and with the gage reference quite a few references turned up. For those who've been here a while this one may bring back a memory or two. It turned up when I had narrowed the search to category 30

replying to Joe Gorman, Alexis Rivera wrote: Some one just gave me a very rusty one and a Stanley #5. Are these worth anything since it's not a real Stanley.im excited to clean it up and use it. New to this type of wood working. Thanks in advance.

It depends upon your sense of value. Don't quit your "day job". :-)

since it's not a real Stanley.im excited to clean it up

Alexis Rivera wrote in news:_d0lD.540486$ snipped-for-privacy@fx13.am:

As long as your planes are in good structural condition (no cracks or signs of being dropped), cleanup and tuning can be well worth it. Take a look at the site linked above for some very useful information. (He's got a couple other hand plane pages that are worth a read.)

One tip: just because the sole looks shiny and clean doesn't mean it slides worth anything. (In my case, wax helped a little but not much.) You may have to resurface it.

Puckdropper