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Woodworking Forum => Woodworking Forum => Topic started by: oldgoaly on April 17, 2019, 02:00:36 PM

Title: No name plane?
Post by: oldgoaly on April 17, 2019, 02:00:36 PM

One of them bottom of a auction box finds a no name plane. Has "Made in USA" in the casting, main body is japaned black.Any ideas on the maker? did it have a paper label?

Title: Re: No name plane?
Post by: oldgoaly on April 17, 2019, 02:03:30 PM

Da plane da plane

Title: Re: No name plane?
Post by: mikeswrenches on April 17, 2019, 03:13:50 PM

It looks like a Stanley no.78. Is there a name on the cutter?

Mike

Title: Re: No name plane?
Post by: oldgoaly on April 17, 2019, 03:24:06 PM

I will have to look, didn't know they marked the cutting blade, learned something.

Title: Re: No name plane?
Post by: Bill Houghton on April 17, 2019, 03:24:50 PM

It's one of the oddities of American plane manufacture that the plane manufacturer's name was often found only on the cutting iron.  Could also be a Craftsman or Wards (made, likely, by Stanley, although perhaps by Millers Falls, which had pretty much the same design after the Stanley patents expired).  Probably not Sargent, which tended not to have an adjuster.

Title: Re: No name plane?
Post by: oldgoaly on April 17, 2019, 03:51:48 PM

Yes it is a Craftsman! on the blade, thanks for the info!