Help me Identify this hand plane

The front knob and depth adjustment knob look like some Stanley types but I don’t think that they ever etched the size (in inches rather than model) in the bottom of the frog. Also any types with the lateral adjuster and that frog reciever style should have patent dates cast behind the frog.

Pretty sure the lever cap has been appropriated from a transitional plane.

So, I have no idea… Any patent dates or other markings cast into the bed anywhere or stamped into the lateral adjust lever?

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I’m thinking it’s a franken plane. Sort of like that old Johnny Cash song, ‘One piece at a time’. Cobbled together from a bunch of parts.

It might be part Ohio tool and part stanley

The lever cap and frog is definitely not stanley as they never had a lever cap look like that or a lateral adjustment that was flat. I think I have seen those type of lateral adjustments on a fulton plane. Most Likely a franken plane. I would turn it into a scrub plane.

-- It was too perfect. It looked machine made- Ron Swanson

I remember seeing a lever cap with that mustache before, hopefully Don pops in here

Definitely Frankenplane. Stanley iron and chipbreaker, Stanley Transitional lever cap (moustache), Union or Ohio bed and frog – or neither since no makings. 5~1/2 size given the 2~1/4” iron marking.

So clean it up and call it a “YOOZER” . Nice big jack or small jointer.

-- Mike (near Boston) ... Laziness is the mother of invention, necessity is the mother of exhaustion - me

Seeing a bigger pic of it I thought it might of been a Stanley transitional lever cap but it doesn’t have the stippling on it. Looks more like a Union transitional lever cap. That lateral adjuster might be shop made seeing the copper pinning of it.

I think Mike was pretty close. transitional lever cap, Probably a Union or Stanley bed, they’re both about the same, I can’t tell them apart anyhow. The lateral is probably Union but maybe replace or maybe just fixed. Make it a user and let it live.

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