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SOLD: Stanley No. 71 Router Plane — Complete

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SOLD: Router planes are among my favorite tools. And this was my first one.

It has all its parts: Three cutters (spear and two straights) and the mechanism that doubles as a depth stop and to convert the tool to a closed-mouth router plane. This tool has never been the most gorgeous tool in my tool box, but it has done a ton of good work.

It’s a U.S.-made tool, so it pre-dates the era when Stanley moved production to the United Kingdom.

Price: $65 plus $7 domestic shipping.

About Tool Sales on My Blog

Please read this if you are interested in buying a tool. Why am I selling these tools? Read this entry before you freak out. There is no “master list” of tools that I can send you. I am working through several piles of tools and will list them when I can.

Want to see only the tools that haven’t sold? Easy. I’ve created a category for that on this blog. Click here and bookmark that page. When you visit that link, you’ll see only the tools that haven’t been sold.

While you can ask me all the questions you like about the tool, the first person to send me an e-mail that says: “I’ll take it,” gets the tool. Simple. To buy a tool, please send me an e-mail at christopher.schwarz@fuse.net.

Payment: I can accept PayPal or a personal check. As soon as the funds arrive, I’ll ship the tool using USPS. If you want insurance, let me know. I’m afraid I can only ship tools in the United States. Shipping internationally is very time-consuming and paperwork-heavy. My apologies in advance on this point.

If you don’t like the tool when you get it, I’ll be happy to refund your money if you return the tool. But postage is on you.

— Christopher Schwarz

SOLD: Sargent/Craftsman Rabbet Plane — New in Box

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SOLD: This was my first rabbet plane — a Sargent copy of the Stanley No. 78 rabbet plane that was made for Craftsman. This tool is like new. All the parts are intact. The iron is set up and sharp. The box is sturdy. The fence locks better than your average fence.

I’ve had this plane forever. I can’t remember not having it.

Price: $60 plus $8 domestic shipping.

About Tool Sales on My Blog

Please read this if you are interested in buying a tool. Why am I selling these tools? Read this entry before you freak out. There is no “master list” of tools that I can send you. I am working through several piles of tools and will list them when I can.

Want to see only the tools that haven’t sold? Easy. I’ve created a category for that on this blog. Click here and bookmark that page. When you visit that link, you’ll see only the tools that haven’t been sold.

While you can ask me all the questions you like about the tool, the first person to send me an e-mail that says: “I’ll take it,” gets the tool. Simple. To buy a tool, please send me an e-mail at christopher.schwarz@fuse.net.

Payment: I can accept PayPal or a personal check. As soon as the funds arrive, I’ll ship the tool using USPS. If you want insurance, let me know. I’m afraid I can only ship tools in the United States. Shipping internationally is very time-consuming and paperwork-heavy. My apologies in advance on this point.

If you don’t like the tool when you get it, I’ll be happy to refund your money if you return the tool. But postage is on you.

— Christopher Schwarz

SOLD: Incra 6" Try Square

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SOLD: Before I had found a decent vintage try square, this was my companion in the shop. It’s a 6″ Incra “Guaranteed Square” tool. It is indeed totally square. I have treated this tool like it was a small wounded animal. There are no nicks in the anodized aluminum body. The square is completely square.

One nice thing about these tools is that the stock has a shelf on it that allows the tool to sit on your work without the stock swinging down. That’s a nice touch.

Price: $30 plus $6 domestic shipping.

About Tool Sales on My Blog

Please read this if you are interested in buying a tool. Why am I selling these tools? Read this entry before you freak out. There is no “master list” of tools that I can send you. I am working through several piles of tools and will list them when I can.

Want to see only the tools that haven’t sold? Easy. I’ve created a category for that on this blog. Click here and bookmark that page. When you visit that link, you’ll see only the tools that haven’t been sold.

While you can ask me all the questions you like about the tool, the first person to send me an e-mail that says: “I’ll take it,” gets the tool. Simple. To buy a tool, please send me an e-mail at christopher.schwarz@fuse.net.

Payment: I can accept PayPal or a personal check. As soon as the funds arrive, I’ll ship the tool using USPS. If you want insurance, let me know. I’m afraid I can only ship tools in the United States. Shipping internationally is very time-consuming and paperwork-heavy. My apologies in advance on this point.

If you don’t like the tool when you get it, I’ll be happy to refund your money if you return the tool. But postage is on you.

— Christopher Schwarz

SOLD: Stanley Rosewood Gauge — All the Bells & Whistles

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SOLD: This Stanley rosewood gauge has everything you need. It’s a mortise gauge, a marking gauge and a marking gauge for curves.

• It’s a mortise gauge. It has double pins that are micro-adjustable from the end of the stem. The brass wear plate on the head makes it a durable tool.

• It’s a marking gauge. Turn the the head 90° and there is a single-pin gauge that bears against the brass wear plate.

• It’s a gauge for curved work. You can mark mortises or a single scratch line off of a curved surface by rotating the head 90° and reinserting it onto the beam. That bring the brass curved plate into the mix.

All in all, this is an effective and well-made gauge. As such, it has seen a lot of miles and the edges are worn down by more than 100 years of use. It is, however, a 100-percent ready-to-go-to-work tool. I’ve used it for many years as my primary marking gauge.

Price: $60 plus $6 domestic shipping.

About Tool Sales on My Blog

Please read this if you are interested in buying a tool. Why am I selling these tools? Read this entry before you freak out. There is no “master list” of tools that I can send you. I am working through several piles of tools and will list them when I can.

Want to see only the tools that haven’t sold? Easy. I’ve created a category for that on this blog. Click here and bookmark that page. When you visit that link, you’ll see only the tools that haven’t been sold.

While you can ask me all the questions you like about the tool, the first person to send me an e-mail that says: “I’ll take it,” gets the tool. Simple. To buy a tool, please send me an e-mail at christopher.schwarz@fuse.net.

Payment: I can accept PayPal or a personal check. As soon as the funds arrive, I’ll ship the tool using USPS. If you want insurance, let me know. I’m afraid I can only ship tools in the United States. Shipping internationally is very time-consuming and paperwork-heavy. My apologies in advance on this point.

If you don’t like the tool when you get it, I’ll be happy to refund your money if you return the tool. But postage is on you.

— Christopher Schwarz

Whetting Block & the Waving Engine

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CXLIII. In the chief of this quarter is an Engine called a Whetting Block, or a Block to Whet, or File a Saws Teeth in: It is an end of a Spar, or such piece of Wood, with a Bevil or taper Groove, or Mortess cut from side to side, and in depth half through the Wood; to which is fitted a Wedge answerable to the Groove or Mortess; Into this Groove the Blade of the Saw is put, which is wedged hard in, that it cannot play or quaver under the File, when the Teeth are Filing sharp with a three square File.

The Figure in the Base of this quarter is termed the Waving Engine; it is a thing wherewith Waved Work is generally made upon small Frames for Pictures and Looking Glasses, and such like work; and is in the bottom a long Plank of about seven Inches broad, and an Inch and half thick: On the middle of the Plank runs a Rabbet, and upon the Rabbet rides a Block with an Handle through it, of about an inch in the diameter; and at the further end of the Block is fastned a Vice, or a Great Hand Vice. At the other end of the Plank is erected a square strong piece of Wood about six inches high, having a square Mortess in it on the top, and bound about with an Iron Collar somewhat loosely fitted on, having two Male Screws fitted in two Female Screws, to screw against that part of the Wood unmortessed, thereby to hold the Iron that worketh the Moulding, whose lower end is cut into the form of the said Moulding you intend the work shall have. On the other side the square wooden piece is fitted another Iron Screw having a round Plate fastned at the end of it; and at the farther side is placed a Wooden Screw called a Knob, with a flat piece of Iron coming through the farther and higher side of the square piece standing edgewise with the higher edge rounded off or Filed round.

The several parts of the Waving Engin.

a the Plank of bottom of the Engine.
b the Block with a Groove on the bottom.
c the Rabbet on which the Block runs.
d the handle to draw the Block by.
e the hand screw, with its Key to wind the screw.
f the two Screws Male and Female.
g the square upright piece of Wood, with the Mortess on the top having a square flat Iron Collar on the higher part.
h the Iron which cuts the Waves, whose bottom is cut into the form of the Moulding the work is intended.
j the Wooden Screw or Knob, on the farther side of the square piece of Wood, with a flat piece of Iron about 3 quarters of an inch broad, and a quarter of an inch thick, standing an edge, coming through the sides.
k the Iron screw, with its Nut, having a round Iron Plate made fast at the end of its shank.
l the Rack, is a thin flat piece of hard Wood about an nch and quarter broad and as long as the Rabbet.
m the Mouth, is a square hole in the foreside, and through the square piece of Wood, under the Iron wich hath its end cut according to the moulding, through which the board to be mounted is drawn.

The Riglet, is the Board either Moulded, or prepared to be Moulded.

— From Randle Holme’s “The Academy of Armory, or, A Storehouse of Armory and Blazon” Book III, Chapter VIII, Plate 2. Why am I reading this?