Sorry Bill... *LINK*

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Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

>Please explain what makes this bullnose plane so expensive or so desireable for a collector (and no, it is not a shoulder plane). Was this someone's overzealousness or discalculation when bidding. As far as I can determine, this is not even a good bullnose plane for the user (e.g. can't adjust the mouth)! Its rarity, if so, would be because no one wanted one!!!

Regards from Perth

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William R. Duffield on the Cohansey

>There's no real explaining the needs and desires of collectors in terms understandable to the user. The value of this one is in its rarity. Walter prices it at $1000 to $2500, so the price paid for this one is not out of line, even with the less than crisp condition of the nickel plating. Patrick Leach provides this tongue-in-cheek commentary on the #90A.

While Stanley called the #90 through #94 "cabinet makers rabbet planes" they are marginally effective shoulder planes. The bevel up cutter is bedded at 20�, which is 2� more than the 18� bedding angle of the L-N 073, for example and 5� more than the 15� bedding angle of the LV medium and bullnose shoulder planes. This makes for a fragile edge when sharpened to 20� or so for effective cutting of end grain (40� effective cutting angle), but it just means you have to stop and rehone a bit more often, and a microbevel to save honing time isn't very practical, because it further weakens the edge.

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Chris Knight

>This one is of course especially valuable. It just happens to be exactly the same one that Patrick shows on his website which may help explain why mr.peabody's prose sounds a lot like Patrick's..

Chris

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Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>As stated it's a rare plane. I agree with you, not a very funcinal plane as far as a bull nose goes. Also Mr. Bill;) seems to think having more than 4 of one type(or should I series of planes as Sr. William said) will throw off the earth off it's axis. So if I had bid on it and won I'd have to send him 2 of mine to restore the earth to it proper spin cycle.

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William R. Duffield on the Cohansey

>You are very observant! Even more curious is that no additional wear marks or additional loss of nickel plating has occurred in the intervening years. Can you believe that guy never used this incredibly versatile tool in all that time since the MofA's photo?!?

A similar thing happened to me once. I went to a local auction, and passed up a Stanley #140 that went for about $60. (I already have a L-N copy, and didn't need it, so I figured there wasn't any sense fighting the guy over it). Shortly thereafter, the same plane showed up on eBay and sold at a tidy profit. I recognized it from the pattern of the rust marks on the sole.

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Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>And, as anyone knows who has done laundry in a machine, getting it off the spin cycle results in a lot of rattling around and noise.

Bill, hoping for Scott's future rust-hunting success...

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Todd Hughes

>The same Stanley plane, except marked made in England is pretty common ,[I've had two over the years]and sells for about $30, also more common is the 90J which is identical except for being jappaned and these sell for about a 1/3 less then the nickled 90A. The greaty rariety of one plane over the other and what people want is what makes one worth more of course....Guess it is sort of like saying I don't know why sombody would want, and pay more for, a fine antique chair when a cheap easyboy is more comfortable.......Todd