Jim Koepke
02-08-2008, 3:05 AM
Took a bit of a vacation to hunt for a few acres with house for retirement living. On the way back of course, we stopped at any open looking antique shop. In Oregon, we stopped at one and I saw something I have been out bid on a few times on the famous uPay site, a Stanley 4 1/2 plane. I picked it up and was excited until it lead me to confusion. I was trying to retract the blade, but the more I turned the adjuster, the further out the blade came. Then it dawned on me. There is a patent date inside the adjuster. What is real weird, is there are three dates on the lever and the blade has the large hole at the bottom, but the stamp on the blade is pre- 92 patent. So it is between type 5 and 6. In the same store, there was another No 4. I almost passed this up, but I had to look. That is when I noticed it was a bedrock with the wrong lever cap and a corrugated sole. The 4 1/2 also had the wrong lever cap. The two of them came to $54, no sales tax in Oregon.
Further down the road another shop had an old No 4. The blade had a SW logo. Noticed the same backwards adjustment on this rust collector. For $7.50 the ride down the slope is cheap on this one. The front knob is incorrect or missing. There was a knob there the store owner let me have.
Haven't gotten the picture thing down real good, but hopefully this will come through.
Jim
Further down the road another shop had an old No 4. The blade had a SW logo. Noticed the same backwards adjustment on this rust collector. For $7.50 the ride down the slope is cheap on this one. The front knob is incorrect or missing. There was a knob there the store owner let me have.
Haven't gotten the picture thing down real good, but hopefully this will come through.
Jim