Vintage wood plane

[drmarkr]

Belonged to my great grandfather, who was born in 1883 in Scotland. Found it in the top of my Dad's shop and brought it home....I display it with some other vintage tools in my shop:

 

[Roberts210]

That's just beautiful. I love that it belonged to your grandad.

That's how they built things back then. I grew up on a farm... it's been in our family for 140 years now... it had a HUGE barn, built in 1922 by my then 14-yr old pop, his father and two carpenters. Every cut was made with a handsaw, every nail driven by hand. In this day of power planers, nail-guns, etc., it's a sobering thought.

 

[pendragon1998]

Write a little note describing its provenance and tuck it in behind the iron for the next owner (hopefully your son or daughter).

 

[drmarkr]

Write a little note describing its provenance and tuck it in behind the iron for the next owner (hopefully your son or daughter).

My 25 and 22 y/o sons probably won't care about it at all...but my 11 y/o just about lives in the shop with me. He already, at least partially, grasps its significance. And that makes me happy.

 

[cgrutt]

That's awesome.

 

[Skidonenko]

love it. My 2yo is going to be trouble for sure. Have a bunch of both my grandfathers tools also. Need to get an old manual lathe and mill to put some to use. Have to keep passing it on. Ill be tickled pink to find him getting into my tools later. Just need to make sure I have enough "stuff" to dig into without him going buck wild and driving momma nuts.

 

[Ntzabtntr]

Nice old plane, Drmarkr...

If you look at the front end of the plane, unless someone cut it down to fit in a tool box, you should see a manufacturer's stamp. With raking light and after rubbing some spit on it, it should be more legible. If you could post a pic of the stamp, I might be able to tell you when and where it was made.

The iron likely has a stamp as well, but the irons and plane bodies usually were made by different companies back then.

Brian