Combination plane!

[Neil Lawton]

I posted this on the institute a few weeks ago, but thought some of you who work in the flat might want to see it.
I was gifted this by a retiring woodworker.







Lovely piece of kit!

 

[silver]

My dad used to have one and it was still boxed, looked like spon new.

He had never used it and I would never use it either so I sold it on flea bay and it made £165 and sold it to a guy in Italy. And he paid the postage.. Some are truly mad to collect tools such as that..
Really nice bit of kit that shouldn't just sit in a box,

Thought someone may as well make the most of it..even if it was a collector just looking at it every day..

 

[Jim]

I wouldn't have a clue how to use it without some tuition, but i gather this can plane shapes? Or am i far out ..

 

[Woody]

I had one of them they are a lovely tool that went out of fashion when the router come out like Eamonn I sold mine on ebay the blades are all tungsten steel and will last forever

 

[Penpal]

Years and years around sixty years ago I worked on a job site with a Spanish Carpenter who used hand tools only to hang several hundred doors over two years on a refurb remodelling a large Hotel his planes he made forever before as part of his apprenticeship in Spain part of the trade he would have given his eye teeth for the combination lathe but too true so many pop up unused they are treasures especially with the new irons.

Twenty years later or more I went to a garage sale and it was the Spanish guys Son selling included was planes his Dad used all his working life he the Dad once told me he had to make his own irons as well. I bought the planes tripping down memory lane were they rough looking too right they have some real tough timbers in Spain apparently I met him in the early 50,s.

Good to have those treasures mate.

Peter.

 

[Neil Lawton]

I wouldn't have a clue how to use it without some tuition, but i gather this can plane shapes? Or am i far out ..

Think of it as a laborious router Jim.
You can tongue and groove, rebate, or profile with it.

 

[Lons]

I think it was the next step up from owning several wooden moulding planes. I have one as well which was gifted to me years ago, I've never used it. Must dig it out of it's drawer an look but I don't think it's in quite as good condition as yours Neil.

Great acquisition for anyone who loves tools.

Might spur me on to sell some stuff, I have a compass plane and loads of very old carving gouges that need to go.

 

[wm460]

Interesting looking set.

 

[brody2123]

Oooh that's gorgeous Neil! Don't see many with a full set of irons any more.

 

[Doug]

I have the plough plane version of this style Stanley with the plastic handle, bought it new about 35 years ago, works well but the handle is pretty horrendous but then for free you can't complain & you could always make a nice wooden one

 

[Jimjam66]

As Monty Python would say: "You lucky, lucky bastard!"

There is a magic to well-built old hand tools.

 

[Bill Mooney]

I used one of these for years until, as Woody says, along came the router & made it easy. I still have all my grandad's wooden moulding planes as he was a cabinet maker. I still use his Stanley smoother which he bought in 1910, it has a beautiful balance.
You are a lucky lad Neil.

 

[Neil Lawton]

As Monty Python would say: "You lucky, lucky bastard!"

There is a magic to well-built old hand tools.

There is indeed David.
It will be used. I have a picture frame to make, once I have ripped the timber on the table saw (I'm not totally mad) I intend to make it using some of the old hand tools I have.

Oh, and yes, I am a lucky bastard

 

[Twister]

nothing quite like using old hand tools
a slip with that and it is probably fixable

a slip with electric router is usually disaster

just my opinion

Steve

 

[Neil Lawton]

nothing quite like using old hand tools
a slip with that and it is probably fixable

a slip with electric router is usually disaster

just my opinion

Steve

I wish you'd told that to my left index finger 5 years ago Steve!

 

[Twister]

I wish you'd told that to my left index finger 5 years ago Steve!

oops I was on about the workpiece
hope u never bled on what u was doing and ruined it:nonono::nonono::nonono:
Steve

 

[yorkshireman]

I bought one a couple of years ago Neil just to admire the craftsmanship.

 

[Penpal]

Hand skills are dissapearing nice to see you using yours mate may you prosper in so doing raiseawareness.

Peter.

 

[Dalboy]

When set up they are easy to use I inherited one from my dad like This One complete with the box