Trying to date a hand plane

John McCoy wrote:
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> Dan <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > It's a metal body with a lever cap, on a wooden bed.
> > Can anybody tell me anything about it?
>
> Marshall Wells was a large hardware store. Around the turn of the
> century-before-last (i.e. 1900) it was common for large hardware
> stores to have private-brand tools. Marshall Wells seems to have
> mostly had their planes made by Sargent. I dunno if there's a
> Sargent dating page anywhere, but if there is you could probably
> date your plane thru that. Otherwise, a likely guess would be
> a date around WW1.

John is right about Sargent. I've found a plane just like yours last
year and asked about it on the Oldtools List. I got good info and even
some copies of old Sargent catalogs. Here are illustrations of your
plane from 1894, 1910 and 1922.
http://www.holzwerken.de/pics/sargent_trans_1894.jpg
http://www.holzwerken.de/pics/sargent_trans_1910.jpg
http://www.holzwerken.de/pics/sargent_trans_1922.jpg

Wolfgang
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>
> Isn't that illegal?

I checked the pics on the binaries group. She's definitely over the age of
consent.

On Tue 24 Feb 2004 10:38:35p, LRod <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> Isn't that illegal?
>

I don't think there's a constitutional amendment banning it yet.

Dan

Dan <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> I've posted a few pictures of a hand plane a friend dropped off a
> couple days ago, on alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking, under this same
> subject line. I don't know if I'll be able to make it actually work,
> but I'm going to give it a shot. It's a metal body with a lever cap,
> on a wooden bed. The blade has a Marshal Wells logo. Can anybody tell
> me anything about it?

Metal top with a wooden body means it's what's called a "transitional
plane", for no good reason. Many people beleive transitionals have
all the bad points of both metal body and wood body planes, with none
of the good points of either :-)

Marshall Wells was a large hardware store. Around the turn of the
century-before-last (i.e. 1900) it was common for large hardware
stores to have private-brand tools. Marshall Wells seems to have
mostly had their planes made by Sargent. I dunno if there's a
Sargent dating page anywhere, but if there is you could probably
date your plane thru that. Otherwise, a likely guess would be
a date around WW1.

John

On Thu 26 Feb 2004 02:07:13a, Wolfgang Jordan <[email protected]>
wrote in news:[email protected]:

> John is right about Sargent. I've found a plane just like yours last
> year and asked about it on the Oldtools List. I got good info and even
> some copies of old Sargent catalogs. Here are illustrations of your
> plane from 1894, 1910 and 1922.
> http://www.holzwerken.de/pics/sargent_trans_1894.jpg
> http://www.holzwerken.de/pics/sargent_trans_1910.jpg
> http://www.holzwerken.de/pics/sargent_trans_1922.jpg
>
Yep, that's it all right. :-)

Many thanks, everybody. Looks like I can be pretty safe saying it's
somewhere around the turn of the last century, probably around WWI. That's
pretty close. Also looks like I've got a wall decoration instead of a user,
but what the hey. It's just so darn cute. Thanks again, all.

Dan

John McCoy <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Dan <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
> > I've posted a few pictures of a hand plane a friend dropped off a
> > couple days ago, on alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking, under this same
> > subject line. I don't know if I'll be able to make it actually work,
> > but I'm going to give it a shot. It's a metal body with a lever cap,
> > on a wooden bed. The blade has a Marshal Wells logo. Can anybody tell
> > me anything about it?
>
> Metal top with a wooden body means it's what's called a "transitional
> plane", for no good reason. Many people beleive transitionals have
> all the bad points of both metal body and wood body planes, with none
> of the good points of either :-)
>

Also, wooden-bodied planes including the transitionals usually have
a manufacturers name and catalog number or size stamped into the
endgrain.

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FF

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 04:27:54 -0000, Dan <[email protected]> wrote:

Isn't that illegal?

>I've posted a few pictures of a hand plane a friend dropped off a couple
>days ago, on alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking, under this same subject
>line. I don't know if I'll be able to make it actually work, but I'm going
>to give it a shot. It's a metal body with a lever cap, on a wooden bed. The
>blade has a Marshal Wells logo. Can anybody tell me anything about it?

Oh. Never mind.

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"Joe Tylicki" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> >
> > Isn't that illegal?
>
> I checked the pics on the binaries group. She's definitely over the age
of
> consent.
>
>
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