What's making these shavings?

Imagine the job it'll do once I lap the sole and square the sides.

Bless it's heart.

 

Plus that extra dirt, grime and rust gives it extra heft to plow those 1/8" curlies out. ;^)

 

Yes Smitty. Don't forget to lap the sole to 8,000. And I don't know how that DE 4 1/2 made it this far without sides square to the sole…It will forever be a mystery, but you, my dear fellow, will rectify that.

It is one beautiful plane. I see why you picked it up. I don't see any pitting. She looks like she'll clean up nicely. And shavings like that before any fettling. Nice.

 

Scotty said "plow 1/8" curlies" .. hehe.

 

BOOM - Stef Bomb! Scotty got burned…...

 

Don, a Hock iron for $18.00 is quite the find. I never would have thought to look at one at an antique store. Suggests to me that a gentleman woodworker passed on and the iron ended up in his estate. Something to look for on my estate sale runs.

 

It might not be the hand plane of my dreams, but for the price and like new condition I couldn't help myself! This came up on a local classified site with the PM-V11 blade for $150! Hoping to pick it up this weekend!

 

Its all about timing Brad. I actually happened to be in the shop when the vendor brought it in. I bought a few other things from him.

I paid $100 for the 604. At the time it was about retail, but I had it in my hands. I've never done anything to it except sharpen it. Here it is with the SW cutter. I can't find the pictures of the Hock iron in it. It does as well, but no better.

Jason, the BU LV looks like a great deal…....

 

Hey, Jason, I saw that ad! A little too far for me to drive, even if I had really wanted it, but glad you are able to snag it.

 

Nice 4 1/2" DE smitty. I assume you got that off the bay and beat me? Lol.

 

Pezking7P

I'm not a metallurgist I'm just parroting what I have heard regarding modern steels (although the stock irons on my MF planes are post war so those might be considered "modern" as well). So far that $3 cutter has done a good job and held its edge.

2 more boards to finish off, then I get to final cuts and some dovetails for a box I'm making.

 

Was hoping you eagle eye's could help me out.. I found this ad but the dude hasn't responded to me yet… One or two of those kind of look like a Bedrock, can you guys tell or am I reaching? thanks fellas!

 

^JayT - 30 miles is a short trip (for this part of the world) for that beauty. Pretty rare to find hand tools on the classified sites around here, yet alone that kind of quality.

 

7, the top left one the lever cap looks like it might be a Type 1 thru 4. Definitely worth looking at.

 

Thats what I was thinking CL, and the one to the right of it has those sides that are flat on top versus the rounded sides like most of them… K i'm gonna keep bugging this dude! Can't believe he hasn't replied.

 

lateral, not off the 'bay, but a find from one place or another (honestly don't recall without having my journal in front of me). It needed tote work and that's been done compliments of Don Yoda. I think it's an early type, given the placement of the Diamond underneath the aduster like it is. Most times it's elsewhere. Defiinitely a Union-made plane, though.

There was fettling of frog position as well as a full sharpening of the iron to get it to work decently. It sits in the bottom of the toolchest as a larger smoother.

 

A $3 Buck Brothers iron is in my scrub plane, and it's true that it's actually a decent blade. I'd rather put a back-bevel on it than one of my Hocks, for sure.

 

I like my DE #8, probably sargent made i guess. Cuts well well.

 

7, the front one looks like a plain lever cap on my screen. I think all the Bedrocks had stamped caps. Could still be a BR of course, just wrong cap.

 

If that price tag is $25 on a possible BR, I'd keep bugging the guy to.