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> Have old block plane. It is stamped "w.thackeray planemaker ",
> remainder of stamp cannot be read.
>
> Mahogany body, brass cheeks with steel sole plate
>
> Any ideas please
>
> NormanE
Norman,
like always, Google knows the answer:
http://archive.oldtools.org/archive_get.phtml?message_id=8837&submit_thread=1
http://www.mjdtools.com/tools/list_356/131417.htm
Wolfgang
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<[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Have old block plane. It is stamped "w.thackeray planemaker ",
> remainder of stamp cannot be read.
>
> Mahogany body, brass cheeks with steel sole plate
>
> Any ideas please
>
> NormanE
>
googling reveals
W THACKERAY
> PLANE MAKER
> ARMLEY
> YORKSHIRE
> ENGLAND
"Ken Robert's in his English Woodworking Tools book has a single line
indicating that this company got in the metal plane business after 1860.
Goodman (British Planemakers) has the following:
Thackeray, John William LEEDS
Wesley Rd, Armley <1893>
67 Old Row Armley 1907 - 1912
Ivy Works, 51 Old Row, Armley <1930
Metal plane maker
(Goodman uses brackets to indicate that he was probably in business
for more time in the direction of the bracket, but he could not pin the
dates down.)"
Regards
Jamaro
<[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Have old block plane. It is stamped "w.thackeray planemaker ",
> remainder of stamp cannot be read.
>
> Mahogany body, brass cheeks with steel sole plate
>
> Any ideas please
>
I have an idea.
Sharpen it, use it, love it, clean it.
That's four ideas. any one will do.
But what sort of idea were you after?
Tim W