Sargent #160 Scrub Plane

Re: Sargent #160 Scrub Plane

Todd Hughes

>I have never seen one I don't think but older Sargent planes I feel are every bit as good as a Stanley....Will point out that a Sargent 160 "Books" out as being worth about 3 times what a Stanley no. 40 scrub goes for....By the way a Sargent no. 162 Scrub Plane tops out at $3,000 acording to my Sargent Value Guide by David Heckel.....Todd

Re: Sargent #160 Scrub Plane

walt quadrato

>Davy, I think what Todd's trying to say is..step away from the keyboard and GO GET THE PLANE!!! I'm in the state where these were made and I have yet to find one. Every bit as good as the Stanley.

Re: Sargent #160 Scrub Plane

walt quadrato

>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3268439295&category=13874

just found it myself on ebay...I think it'll go for quite a bit more than the initial bids.

Re: Sargent #160 Scrub Plane

Greg Betit, Crown Point NY

>What's up with the extra concave ground end? Was the guy trying to make a beader out of it? Maybe he was turning it into a match plane for tambour garage doors?

Re: Sargent #160 Scrub Plane

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>The concave end gives you somewhere to rest your finger, thus ensuring that you "blood" your projects early. St. Roy would approve.

Swoopy-lookin' tool; I really like the one-piece cast iron design. But (DBG) it makes me feel even better about my $6 expenditure on my Stanley.

or maybe...

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>the concave end is to match the convex end against, to make sure you ground it right. See, you just hold the convex end up against the concave one -- no, there's something wrong there. Let me think about that.

Re: Sargent #160 Scrub Plane

Davy

>I would buy the thing if it was anywhere near my price range. I can hear my explanation to the wife - "Honey, I know our son is having his 3rd surgery this year and we have plenty of hospital bills, but dog-gone that plane was a steal at $500 and we can live on beans and rice for a few months anyway."

alert to bill's 2004 secret santa....

John Truxell-Svenson (jvs)

>Bookmark the post above, and think along the lines of "organic vapor mask."




/jvs





btw--nicely done. the best i was going to come up with was heavy duty parsnip peeler/cigar trimmer, but there was no point in even trying to follow that....

The only organic vapors in my shop...

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>are the result of my love for Mexican food.

There's a reason they call us folk over 50 "old [Message to viewers: we're sorry, the signal has been temporarily interrupted]!"