Jim Koepke
06-03-2008, 3:54 AM
This plane was picked up cheap, and it works real nice without much tuning. What is strange though is it does not seem to fit into any of the block planes on Patrick Leach's Blood & Gore. Unless I missed some or this may be a Frankenplane.
Some things do not add up. It has an adjustable mouth, but appears to be from before there was an adjusting lever for the mouth. There is not a hole for the pivot pin. It has a lateral adjuster for the blade with three patent dates, but it is bent and has a flat to do the work instead of the disk that should be there.
Then, the body and blade look to be old and have oxidation to show for it where as the front knob, the lateral adjuster, the adjusting nut and the adjusting lever all look like new. This is what makes me think it is a Frankenplane. All the planes on Blood and Gore indicate the blades to be 1-3/4 inch until about 1909. This plane has a 1-5/8 blade. The bedding angle appears to be 25°.
Anyone have any ideas? Heck, I guess if it works nice I shouldn't worry.
jim
--If some of those people on the radio had their knickers as twisted as their logic, they would walk funny.
Some things do not add up. It has an adjustable mouth, but appears to be from before there was an adjusting lever for the mouth. There is not a hole for the pivot pin. It has a lateral adjuster for the blade with three patent dates, but it is bent and has a flat to do the work instead of the disk that should be there.
Then, the body and blade look to be old and have oxidation to show for it where as the front knob, the lateral adjuster, the adjusting nut and the adjusting lever all look like new. This is what makes me think it is a Frankenplane. All the planes on Blood and Gore indicate the blades to be 1-3/4 inch until about 1909. This plane has a 1-5/8 blade. The bedding angle appears to be 25°.
Anyone have any ideas? Heck, I guess if it works nice I shouldn't worry.
jim
--If some of those people on the radio had their knickers as twisted as their logic, they would walk funny.