Posting photos - old plane identification

[Ian Wilkes]

Hi all, I’m new to the forum as looking for some help identifying an old plane I’ve picked up. How do you attach photos to posts? Is it possible?

Thanks in advance

[Mike Manning]

I'm pretty sure you have to pay the $6 annual "contributor fee" to see and post pics. The fee also allows you to post and comment in the Classifieds section.

[Lee Schierer]

Hi all, I’m new to the forum as looking for some help identifying an old plane I’ve picked up. How do you attach photos to posts? Is it possible?

Thanks in advance

On May 2, 2019 the privileges to view pictures was removed at the member level. Members can become contributors using the Donate Button at the top of the page to update their accounts here and obtain the ability to view pictures and access file attachments.

Posting photos is easy. Just click on the little window icon in the blue bar at the top of the Quick Reply box. I'm not sure if members can post photos for others to view or not. Only contributors can view photos.

[John K Jordan]

O... I'm not sure if members can post photos for others to view or not. Only contributors can view photos.

I recently saw a photo posted by a Member.

[Mike Kreinhop]

I recently saw a photo posted by a Member.

It is easy for Members to post images that anyone can see...even any of the hundreds of unregistered guests that happen to stop by. By using an external hosting service, the images are fetched by the user's computer when the page is opened and not one byte of SMC bandwidth is used.

https://live.staticflickr.com/4458/37301169200_1a69596a2c_c.jpg

[Jim Koepke]

It is easy for Members to post images that anyone can see...even any of the hundreds of unregistered guests that happen to stop by. By using an external hosting service, the images are fetched by the user's computer when the page is opened and not one byte of SMC bandwidth is used.

https://live.staticflickr.com/4458/37301169200_1a69596a2c_c.jpg

Hi Ian and welcome to the Creek.

Mike and Mike are right about the first having to be a contributor, a good investment of $6, and second being able to link to images hosted externally to SMC.

One problem with externally hosted images is when the hosting server disappears from this world.

Some of the older posts archived in conferences like < https://sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?103805 > contain tremendous knowledge.

Some of the images hosted on sites have succumbed to changing policies.

Back to the OP's question:


I’m new to the forum as looking for some help identifying an old plane I’ve picked up.

First step would be, a description of size and materials. Size makes a lot of difference. Is it a wood plane or a metallic plane?

Next would be to determine how the blade is adjusted. What angle is the blade bedded?

Are there any identification marks?

If it is a modern plane > http://www.supertool.com < can be useful to determine if the plane was a standard bench plane, block plane or a speciality plane.

Click on that old cult classic, Patrick's Blood and Gore. You may want to bookmark the third page.

jtk