Thanks guys!
Bill, the plane is a Stanley 050 combination plane. I bought it when I was 20 something. Silvo hardware was closing them out. It plows well enough, but the other 15 molding blades it came with are basically useless beyond a few mm deep. A design flaw.
Hardly any were made and sold at all. A failure as a tool.
It came with a hysterical orange plastic finger grooved tote. The winner of some modern college design contest Stanley had. I didn't like it. So what you see was one of my first carved totes.
I should have kept the box it came in, heh.
Lets see, my bench is part old chemistry lab work table, part black oak and some madrone too. There is a second layer, a lower lamination of old grown fir, making the basic bench about 3 1/2" thick.
i couldn't get any heavy wood timbers to make legs out of, so I used 3" heavy wall steel pipe and heavy rectangle tube stretchers. Its not so pretty as some but I can park one end of a Peterbuilt on it.
The end vise is covered outside in quilted maple and black walnut. Where the sun don't shine is an original design vise, as far as I know. It is an old apple press screw, some 1/4" steel plate, heavy angle iron, 1/2" bolts and some short pipe sections as spacers. Part of what you can see, is a schedule 80 chlorine service pipe flange. :)
I made it to be able to take apart and readjust for wear, but it hasn't needed it in about 15 years use so far.
Unlike many all wood end vises, I can plop my butt up on it and it won't sag even a tiny bit.
yours Scott
