In Dry Dock. Winded

[Tyler Howell]

Pulled the newest addition of the fleet into dry dock for restoration.
I posted on another thread about this Stanley #5 that belonged to my Grandmother's father, then her husband my Grandfather.
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=14905
My great grandfather was a carpenter. Mom told of how he could estimate to the nail, the number needed to build a house.
My grandfather was a jack of all trades and did it well.

A number of the planes in the fleet have been cleaned and lapped but this was going to be a major overhaul. I had a couple offers to do the restoration. I figured this was a right of passage and decided to attempt it myself.

Followed up on a lot of the links bookmarked and also those posted by Creekers John and Leif. Did a quick inventory of supplies and went shopping.
Beumont's Quality Tools had the replacement Y lever, lateral lever and frog I needed. After and hour and a half of BS, I left armed with tools, parts and confidence to tackle this task.
Earlier in the week I :

1. Disassembled the plane (lots of ugly spoog).
2. Sprayed all metal parts down with Simply Green and let sit for about and hour.
3. Took the hose to it with a synthetic brush.
4. Compressed air, heat gun, then bagged it with an ample coating of WD (water displacement) 40.
5. Tonight I carefully scraped all surfaces with a razor knife. Japaning was long gone.
6. Lapping sole and sides with 80 &100 paper on the lapping plate.
7. More to come.

[Jim Dunn]

Tyler,

Looks like ya got your work cut out for ya. They should be almost good as new when you get finished.

A ? is Japaning that black paint on the inside of the sole?

[Tyler Howell]

That's the stuff! According to my reading it ranges from ordinary black paint to exotic alchemist brews that Neanders whip up in the kitchen

[Jim Dunn]

Any reason why it's called Japaning? Seems to me it'd be called paint. Guess that's to boring.

[John Dingman]

Any reason why it's called Japaning? Seems to me it'd be called paint. Guess that's to boring.

Jim, here is a link that will tell you about Japanning: http://www.woodcentral.com/cgi-bin/r...cles_117.shtml

Tyler, It's looking good so far. Looks like you are on the right track.

John

[Danny Jennings]

Looking good Tyler.. I know you will feel a special affinity for this plane when it is finished for two reasons.
First it was your grandfathers' and you will remember him when you use it and
second, you restored it and will know how to adjust,etc..to make it "play beautiful music" as in "whoosh,whoosh, whoosh." I believe Krenov said ..the plane is the cabinetmaker's Stradavarius.
Isn't the slide down this slope a pleasant one?
Danny

[Ted Shrader]

Tyler -

There will be two gentlemen smiling down on you and guiding your hands as you restore that plane. When you are finished, I'm sure it will be beautiful and work just the same.

Regards,
Ted

[Jim Dunn]

John,
It never ceases to amaze me at the wealth of knowledge available on this forum. Truley this is the best ww forum I've come across.

[Tom LaRussa]

Pulled the newest addition of the fleet into dry dock for restoration.
I posted on another thread about this Stanley #5 that belonged to my Grandmother's father, then her husband my Grandfather.
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=14905
My great grandfather was a carpenter. Mom told of how he could estimate to the nail, the number needed to build a house.
My grandfather was a jack of all trades and did it well.

A number of the planes in the fleet have been cleaned and lapped but this was going to be a major overhaul. I had a couple offers to do the restoration. I figured this was a right of passage and decided to attempt it myself.

Sheesh Tyler!

Between you and Bob Smalser, (See post #8 of this thread -- http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=15026 ), you guys are going to have me blubbering all over my keyboard pretty soon.

[Dan Moening]

It is alot of work. But given the providence of this special plane, worth all the much more.

I read recently of a gentleman that used "Appliance Paint" foregoing the entire japanning process. I have used Appliance Paint for a cyclone I built and thought that, in black, it would be quite a good substitute for japanning.

Looking forward to the continued work...

Merry Christmas!