Recent content by ssig2222

I do have better pictures. I haven't really posted on this site and just saw the tiny file sizes allowed and just took some quick ones. I'm not very "savvy" on planes and old tools as I'm just a young buck so what I was saying was that in measurements I've looked up it just lists this plane as...

I have an old Stanley No.5 plane with a corrugated bottom. It is pretty old (like all of Grandpa's tools) but I am trying to figure out how old. I was curious because I see some with the patent on them behind the frog and some do not. Some have the Stanley sweetheart claiming certain dates...

Wow, I kind of forgot about coming back to check this thread out. Ya know, things get hectic. Thank you, everybody for checkin' it out. My parents were getting ready to move and my father thought he wouldn't have enough room for all of his tools and whatnot. So, he went and post the whole...

I was in my dad's basement workshop area and noticed this vise. It was covered in sawdust so I cleaned it off a bit and noticed it said "US NAVY" on it. It used to belong to my 95 year old grandfather who was in the Navy. In fact, the whole workbench belonged to him. He was a machinist...