An overdue gloat and thank you

[CarvedTones]

When I was last at Charlie's, we got on the subject of "old junk lying around" and Charlie showed me the museum in his crawlspace. I was admiring some old planes and he told me to take one if I thought I could put it to use. First this for Charlie - :eusa_clap - and this for me - :eusa_danc. It did have decades of dust and rust, but under the rust I found a Sheffield steel blade with most of its life left and a very functional plane. I have only cleaned it up to user standards; if I spent some time on it, it could look really nice. You can see some of the grain in the picture.



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[toolferone]

Nice gloat and great people. Nice going.

 

[froglips]

Sweet, she looks pretty awsome. Got any shots of the sole?

BTW, not that you were intending to, but that little tabletop workmate is cool too. I have one that seems to find its way into action quite often. For irony sake, i like to mount it on my full sized workmate.

Jim

 

[LeftyTom]

:wink_smil Good pick, Andy, and nice work tuning that plane up.

 

[CarvedTones]

Sweet, she looks pretty awsome. Got any shots of the sole?

BTW, not that you were intending to, but that little tabletop workmate is cool too. I have one that seems to find its way into action quite often. For irony sake, i like to mount it on my full sized workmate.

Jim

I will have to get some more pics. It's in good shape. It doesn't rock on my saw table (old iron - it's flat) and I don't sight any gaps.

Yeah, I love the little workmate. It's on the floor because I moved it out of the way to work on something else. That's something I like about it more than my regular one. My regular one keeps turning into a table and always has something on it when I want to use it.

 

[Ken Massingale]

Oh she's a purty thing! Congrats to you Andy, and a big pat on the back for Charlie.
ken