Stanley 55 type study

[Pat Zabrocki]

Hi everybody,
I've got a stanley 55 that I've been a bit fascinated with lately. I've google'd and yahoo'd until my fingers are numb but can't find a type study on these. Does anyone here know of one somewhere.

thanks
pat

[Russ Massery]

Pat, check this out.http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=41979

[Bill Houghton]

but in case you haven't: http://www.supertool.com/StanleyBG/stan8.htm#num55

[Bruce Page]

Have you checked out Patrick's Blood & Gore?

http://www.supertool.com/StanleyBG/stan8.htm

Bill beat me to it.

[Pat Zabrocki]

thanks Russ,
thats an interesting thread but it has more to do with using the tool which I also want to do so I'll keep that filed away. But my question was more about the tool itself. I was hoping to find access to a type study that would tell me when the tool was made and what the significant features of the era are.

thanks again though, as I said, I intend to use so that thread is cool too.
Pat

[Pat Zabrocki]

Blood and Gore has great general information but again not necessarily a type study to show the changes from one period of time to the next.

thanks
Pat

[George Moore]

Pat,

This may not be exactly what you want but has a lot of information on them. Including patients.

http://www.cornishworkshop.co.uk/combinationplanes.html

Have a Blessed day.

George

[harry strasil]

From Stanley Tools, by John Walter. Mfgd from 1897 to 1963. Type 1 from 1897 to 1905.

Type 1 will have the 9/19/1893 and 1/22/1895 patents stamped on the skate.