Another Question About Planes

[metaldad]

Didn't want to hi jack bigcaddy's thread.
I have been wanting to ask you guys about these. couldn't find them on stanley's site.
Mrbreeze's planes look fantastic!
are they worth anything? they have been sitting a lonnnnnnng time in my carage. should I clean them up? with what? paint? what colors, type of paint.
first pics are of a # 113. note the teeth of gear operator for tensioning the tool surface

second plane is a # 45. note the adjustable fence.

 

[Cookannapurna]

The first one is a compass plane, it is for planing concave, or convex surfaces. You turn the knob to set the sole for the type of work you are doing. They were used mainly in boatbuilding. I worked for several years on restoring a 104 wooden ship Freedom, and used one almost every day. They can be worth 100-200.

The second looks to be either a Stanley #44 or #45 or possibly on of their clones. They came with a variety of " cutters" or blades that when used in a given order, one could make a varity of different moldings. Those were ment to be a replacement for the individual wooden molding planes of old, where you would have an individual narrow wooden plane for each step in making moulding. Unless you have the cutters for the combo plane, I don't think it is very valuable. Compleat and in excellent unrestored state, they can have some value. They were always a bit cantankerous to use, and have largely been replaced with the router. You can even buy router bit sets to replicate the old Stanley moldings that you would have cut with a combo plane.

If you are interested in getting rid of them, I would not do anything to them and sell them as is. Let the buyer decide what they want to do with them. If I owned them, it would be a bath in Evaporust, a coating in T-9 Bioshiled and at least in the case of the compass, a sharpening and back to work.

 

[metaldad]

the 2nd plane is a #45, and has a bit in it, a Roman Ogee. I acquired them way back, along with some other old wooden block planes, spokeshaves, brace hand drills, and misc. stuff, including authentic vintage sawdust.
can't imaging dragging a plane repeatedly in increasing depths to make a rooms worth of trim.

 

[Ridge Runner]

Cool! I got into antique planes a couple years ago when I dug into the old toolboxes in my grandparents' garage. They've been passed down since my great-great-grandfather. Some of the wood ones are from the 1890s.

And y'all will probably get a kick out of this. It's made for cutting plugs of tobacco. He used it in his store. I found a lot more neat stuff, but it's too much to post on here.

 

[bigcaddy]

RidgeRunner,

Great looking planes you have there. That Stanley No.45 is worth a good amount of money in that condition according to my antique tool book. Take good care of it so it can be passed on to your children.

The plug cutter is pretty cool too. I have a small collection of tobacco related items, mostly humidors, but i have a few cats eye cigar cutters as well. The one i have is a tobacco store counter top model for customers who wanted to smoke on their way out.