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MF #7 (Stanley 140 clone?) questions...
Doug
>I just won one of these off ebay and while I'm waiting for it to arrive, I thought I'd ask you folks what you feel are the best uses for these planes and what you use yours most for. Is there any difference between the Stanley and MF version?
Thanks as always.
Re: MF #7 (Stanley 140 clone?) questions...
Tom MacGregor
>I have an 07, and although I haven't had the chance to try it I believe it's a close enough copy of the 140 to switch parts. I use mine mostly to clean up long rabbets cut with my Stanley 78 and light trimming on end grain. I just made storm door of spruce and it smoothed the ends of the through tennons quite well.
Re: MF #7 (Stanley 140 clone?) questions...
Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA
>Probably not much difference the two (I have a Stanley). They work great on trimming tennons. It works OK on endgrain applications, but the plane likes to wander a bit. Alot of people like them for raising panels, I can't comment here. I've never raised a panel, just small animals and cultures in my coffee cup at work (mostly over the weekend) and the fridg at home.
Have fun with it.
I use mine for ...
Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)
>.... cross-grain work mainly.
I have the Stanley version. It is set up with a LN blade.
I have had good success roughing out and smoothing raised panels with it (see pic below - not the best but the only one in my file). It really was so much better at this than my shoulder planes (Stanley #92, #93, and HNT Gordon 3/4") which are usually excellent on end grain shoulders.
It is also good on the cross-grain of tenon shoulders. Keep in mind that it can only be used one-way, unlike a shoulder plane.
I have found it less comfortable on end grain - difficult - I am not sure why. Here I prefer my low angle block planes (LN #102, and Stanley #65 with Hock blade).
Regards from Perth
Derek
Whew, that's a beautiful piece, Derek.
Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX
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Re: I use mine for ...
William R. Duffield on the Cohansey
>Probably, the reason you find it difficult to use on end grain is that the bedding angle is not nearly low enough. That's one significant advantage of the L-N skew block plane: 12� vs. 20�.
Typical of Stanley's m.o., they compromised on everything to sell median tools to median carpenters.
Thanks. The raised panel is Jarrah.
Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)
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