Name that plane

[Mike Dowell]

Hey all, as you may have noticed from other threads, I'm pretty obsessed with hand planes. Ironically, this is a topic I know very little about. I've got this wooden plane my wife gave me years ago, and I decided to blow the dust off of it, and photograph so I could ask you all what it is, and if it's "usable". Here are some pics. looks like Maple.

https://s23.postimg.org/cavlzqdxz/IMG_2208.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/cavlzqdxz/)


https://s23.postimg.org/5lp2jpslz/IMG_2209.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/5lp2jpslz/)


https://s23.postimg.org/phl1z99nb/IMG_2210.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/phl1z99nb/)


https://s23.postimg.org/3wkkpe2af/IMG_2211.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/3wkkpe2af/)


https://s23.postimg.org/y2iz4697b/IMG_2212.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/y2iz4697b/)


https://s23.postimg.org/djo2z3v9z/IMG_2213.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/djo2z3v9z/)

[Robert Hazelwood]

It's a jack plane, and the body will be beech. Looks like all the parts are present with no fatal flaws, so with a bit of cleaning up and tuning it should be perfectly usable. Planes like this are very useful for working with rough boards (jointing and thicknessing).

[Jim Koepke]

Hey all, as you may have noticed from other threads, I'm pretty obsessed with hand planes.

Not obsessed, maybe devoutly interested. If you were obsessed you would already own about 75 of them like some of the rest of us.

jtk

[steven c newman]

Is there a "maker's mark" stamped into the iron? There may also be a name stamped right on the nose of the body.

[bridger berdel]

Not obsessed, maybe devoutly interested. If you were obsessed you would already own about 75 of them like some of the rest of us.

jtk

Is 75 where "obsessed" starts? 'Cause I'm getting kinda close to that. I just figured I was finally getting to the point where I had enough planes to start getting a handle on how they work.

[Dave Anderson NH]

OK Mr. Koepke let me get this straight. If I sell off a few planes and get below 75 does that mean I'm no longer obsessed? :D

[Bill Houghton]

OK Mr. Koepke let me get this straight. If I sell off a few planes and get below 75 does that mean I'm no longer obsessed? :D

If you can take such a radical step without screaming, it may mean you're no longer obsessed. Or you've lost your mind.

[Jim Koepke]

OK Mr. Koepke let me get this straight. If I sell off a few planes and get below 75 does that mean I'm no longer obsessed? :D

Not really, see Bill's answer:


If you can take such a radical step without screaming, it may mean you're no longer obsessed. Or you've lost your mind.

That is my problem. There are plenty of planes in my shop that could be sold off. My justification for not selling them is not having anything on which to spend the money.

The OP, Mike, mentioned an obsession with planes. In reality it appears planes have just begun to appear on his radar.

When my obsession took hold with hand planes there were likely less than 10 different planes in my shop. Currently I have no idea how many planes there are in my shop. This is compounded by recently acquiring a bunch of molding planes.

And that is the plane truth...

jtk

[David Eisenhauer]

Not even, Dave Anderson. The Leopard cannot change it's spots.

[Patrick Chase]

OK Mr. Koepke let me get this straight. If I sell off a few planes and get below 75 does that mean I'm no longer obsessed? :D

It's not so much how many as what you do with them.

I'm sure there are plenty of garden-variety hoarders out there with 75 planes, many of them still in shipping boxes. They don't have a plane obsession per se, but they sure as h*ll have a problem.

No, there are some additional symptoms that one must exhibit to be diagnosed with a bona fide clinical plane obsession (I hear it's under consideration for inclusion in DSM-6 by the way. Ask Derek if you didn't get that). To wit:

1. You dedicate obscene amounts of time and affection to your planes, to the exclusion of normal pursuits such as employment, time with children, regular sex with spouse and/or others, etc. The more unusable the plane or the more the abrasive resembles a dried-up lump of mud straight from a (preferably Japanese) swamp, the more pleasure you get from trying to make it somehow take half-mil shavings. Many plane addicts refer to this as "fettling", which sounds vaguely obscene because it is. "Nothing to see here, I was just fettling my hardened blade" (or that of a stranger to whom you offered fettling services on SMC, a.k.a. "woodworkers' craigslist". I'm not judging).

2. You have a couple Holteys but live in a "mobile workshop" (i.e. a van) down by the river because all of your formerly liquid assets are tied up in your "tool investment".

3. You have Opinions (tm) about planes, and can't bear to hear anybody contradict them. Ever.

4. You express those Opinions on SMC.

I could come up with more, but my family is indicating that I should not be online right now. See, I can quit any time I want.

[Mike Dowell]

Looks like I'll need to clean it up. When I get some spare time at the shop, I'll be back here for help :)

[Kees Heiden]

The truely obsessive plane owner of course has a complete set of Stanley type 11 bench planes, all of them from the nr. 2 till the nr. 8 including the half numbers. Not the nr. 1 of course because that would mark him as a collector. He also has a complete set of Veritas bevelups because they are so versatile. And a set of woodies probably, because they are so cute.

He replaced all the original Stanley irons with Hock O1, because that is part of the fettling proces of course. When the word spread that A2 is a superior toolsteel, he replaced all those Hocks with A2's. Then of course PMV-11 came on the market, which lasts a lot longer and is much easier to sharpen so he replaced all the irons for those. But now he is scouring ebay again for original Stanley irons, because they say these are laminated and laminated is far superior to anything.

And those are just the bench planes.

[Jim Koepke]

Thanks Kees, glad to hear I am not an obsessive plane owner. I will print this out and have Candy read it. Then maybe she will let me get back to ebay to complete my accumulation of type 11 planes.

FYI, you left out the quarter number. Everyone seems to forget the lowly #5-1/4.

BTW, the #1 is a useful plane. Just not useful enough to purchase the Stanley/Bailey model.

jtk