Jpez
Down on the left!
Years ago I was gifted an immaculate vintage #4 Stanley hand plane by an old mentor builder. Absolutely loved it. Then some chunt nicked it from a building site. Sad face.
Much like when an old pet dies I couldn’t bear to get another. Lol. Anyway several years ago I found this old Frankenstein plane for 5 bucks at a garage sale. It was so munted it just sat in my garage.
It was covered in dollops of house paint. it was made up of 3 seperate planes. Record/Marples, Stanley and another unidentified.
Both wooden handles were split and about a 5th missing off the top of the rear. The iron looked like someone had tried to sharpen it with a 9” angle grinder and it had a slight hump in the flat that took ages to hone out. The chip breaker was wonky and all the screws and moving parts were rusted and the sole plate was far from flat.
So over the course of a couple of weeks when I had time I brought it back to life.
Honed down to 3000g it cuts the hair off my arm no problem.
Much like when an old pet dies I couldn’t bear to get another. Lol. Anyway several years ago I found this old Frankenstein plane for 5 bucks at a garage sale. It was so munted it just sat in my garage.
It was covered in dollops of house paint. it was made up of 3 seperate planes. Record/Marples, Stanley and another unidentified.
Both wooden handles were split and about a 5th missing off the top of the rear. The iron looked like someone had tried to sharpen it with a 9” angle grinder and it had a slight hump in the flat that took ages to hone out. The chip breaker was wonky and all the screws and moving parts were rusted and the sole plate was far from flat.
So over the course of a couple of weeks when I had time I brought it back to life.
Honed down to 3000g it cuts the hair off my arm no problem.
