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Nice looking planes. Get to know these, they are great fun to work with.
Your #4 is a “smoother” for final finish of materials( No need for sandpaper after using this one). Your #20 is a “Compass plane” , it is indeed used for curved surfaces, the # 7 is a “Jointer Plane” one ideal for making boards straight. (If used properly )

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Don’t drop that compass plane! It’s very valuable. Nice collection!

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WOW- that compass plane is a great score! I’d love to have one of those, but they are quite pricey on ebay!

By the way, the last two are Stanley Planes. They put the Bailey name on some of them because he was the guy who came up with the adjustment mechanism, patented it around the time of the civil war,and later sold that patent to Stanley.

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The two cast base planes could probably use a lapping after so many years.

You’ve got the starts of a nice collection there. All good, honest working man’s tools from a day when there was pride in making things and the tools to make them with. Cherish them.

Paul

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Pete – Far from crazy! Even though I can’t see the pictures at present, you do have a great start. It’s a shame about the #5 not being available to you. Adding to what Chips said above, the #5 is called a Jack Plane, pretty much because it’s the jack-of-all-trades tool when it comes to doing an intial shape of stuff (wood). After working a board w/ the jack, the jointer is next. It gets the edges and faces square and flat/true. The smoother (#4), like Chips said, is the last one to touch the work, and removes any small tear out and gets the surface oh-so-soft and smooth. Get this one working right and you will indeed be hooked.

When you have the current tools worked up and have a chance to ‘play’ with them, consider adding a similar vintage #5 to your till. With the #4, #5 and #7 you have the three essential bench planes.

Good luck!

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Planes can sure come in handy I have 40 or more and should probably use them more often than I do. I think it’s a matter of getting in the habit of of putting them to use. this will be a good opportunity for you to experiment with the ones you’ve borrowed and see what the can do.

Great score. I lost count and not sure if I could actually get an accurate count. I’d rather not know anyhow.

I agree with Smitty. Add a #5 to that collection and you can plane almost any project. And that’s the “plane” truth.

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Thanks for the information guys, seems I’ve got some reading to do :O

the number 7 is a Jointer Plane… now pays people just use a power jointer…

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#5 should be easy to come by and should be farily inexpensive tool.
Some how I end up with 4 #5s. I don’t recall that I specifically looking for them.
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You should get to know that radius plane well. I have that same plane and would say it is probably my most used plane of all. If your into arches and lots of radius work as in arched cabinet doors, etc. you ll find it is very quick in truing up bandsaw cut arches. I will use it many times over the spindle sander. Enjoy em !

Chrisstef – two points awarded to the gent w/ the snappy verses! :-)

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that’s a very versatile set …..

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