Rust Hunting today

[steven c newman]

Spent a bit over $26 and change..for 2 items....had to sneak them into the house...
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Plain brown paper? Unroll it just a bit..
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Still trying to decide whether this is Walnut..or..Rosewood...what's so special about a $10 marking gauge with ONE point?
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When you turn it over, and find 2 more very sharp (ouch!) points..Brass thumbscrews, too...

So, what was the other item?
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$15.00 for a Low Angle Block Plane?
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Has a wide bed for the iron..
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Older logo on the adjuster...and...
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PATD 10-12 * 97.....on the lever...

Looks like I have some rehab to do....

For some reason..most of the Antique Stores I stopped at, today...were closed? :confused:

[steven c newman]

Cleaned up the block plane and compared it to another 60-1/2 in the shop....they do not match....appears this"new" one is a Stanley No. 65......almost 7" long, compared to the 60-1/2...and a tad wider.....Logo on the iron..
in 3 lines...

STANLEY
RULE & LEVEL Co.
New Britain CONN.U S A

No nickel plate was found...and, this seems to have been BEFORE the knuckle cap was used...hmmm.

[Stew Denton]

Steven, great job on the rust hunt. I especially like the marking gauges.

Stew

[Rob Luter]

I think that's a #77 Marking Gauge. Does it have the moustache shaped brass wear plate on the face of the fence? If so it's Rosewood. I had a mint version found in the wild much like you found this. It was in an antique mall and labeled a "scratcher". I foolishly parted with it.

[Rob Luter]

Cleaned up the block plane and compared it to another 60-1/2 in the shop....they do not match....appears this"new" one is a Stanley No. 65......almost 7" long, compared to the 60-1/2...and a tad wider.....Logo on the iron..
in 3 lines...

STANLEY
RULE & LEVEL Co.
New Britain CONN.U S A

No nickel plate was found...and, this seems to have been BEFORE the knuckle cap was used...hmmm.

It's an early one. They started using the adjustable mouth in 1905 and the KJ Cap in 1917.

[steven c newman]

Compared to the No.60-1/2 I have in the shop...
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499069
499070
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Marking gauge..
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Has a single brass "Handle-bar Mustache".

Guess one can flip the head over as needed...
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3 points....2 fixed, 1 adjustable....each end of the arm has 2 brass pins that go all the way through...
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And a brass adjuster for the moving pin....
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Brass thumbscrew to lock the head in place...

Not too bad...$26 for the two items...counting Sales Tax...?

[Rob Luter]

Compared to the No.60-1/2 I have in the shop...
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499069
499070
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Marking gauge..
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Has a single brass "Handle-bar Mustache".

Guess one can flip the head over as needed...
499073
3 points....2 fixed, 1 adjustable....each end of the arm has 2 brass pins that go all the way through...
499074
And a brass adjuster for the moving pin....
499075
Brass thumbscrew to lock the head in place...

Not too bad...$26 for the two items...counting Sales Tax...?

Yup, an old #65 and a #77.

I had two KJ #65. They were really nice little planes. I liked the oversize nature (for a block plane) they're the same size as a #1 smoother and felt great in my big mitts. They were divested in the great plane purge of a couple years back. I suffer through with a 60 1/2 and a #102 now. I'll figure out a way...:rolleyes:

My #77 had the product ID stamped (embossed) on one side of the sliding fence.

[Chuck Hill]

You have more success in one day than I have in one year!

[steven c newman]

Hmmm...Had to go and look in the "Back Barn" to find the block plane.....sitting on a "Spool Table" with a No. 4 Steel Frog, a No. 4 Handyman, and a No. 3 Steel frog...along with a pair of Transitional Jack planes. There was a pair of rather beat up Coffin Smoothers down on the floor, too....

Went inside the Main Building ( Eastman Antiques, Mount Victory,OH...) and found a bunch of marking gauges...and just happened to pick up the No. 77...mainly due to the adjuster on the end of the arm....

IF I go by the imprinted scale on that arm...I could mark out for a 3" wide tenon? Don't think I will ever do one of those....3/8" wide is more to my liking....

The 77 did not have a price tag on it...so, she went by the other price tags...which where just simple, single pin ones...$10.00?