Very odd plane *LINK*

Re: Very odd plane

Wayne Anderson

>Looks a lot like a 190-something Stanley fiberboard plane.

Fiberboard Planes Anyone... *LINK*

Scott Burr Ben Lomond,CA

>Sorry Jim but it's just a horrifing pasteboard plane...


The horror the horror....

Re: Fiberboard Planes Anyone...

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>The upper floors (where the guest rooms are) in the lodge at the Oregon Caves use fiberboard panels. The Oregon Caves lodge was one of the last grand National Park lodges built, started and finished during the Depression and thus built on a tight budget. The fiberboard walls are the clearest expression of this tight budget. I believe that in the early 30's, when it was built, this was the newest approach to covering walls. Much cheaper and faster than a lath-and-plaster wall, envrionmentally sound because it used otherwise wasted lumberyard remnants, etc. We now see this sort of thing as ugly,* and sheetrock overwhelmed it pretty quickly after World War II. But let's be fair to Stanley once in a while - it was one of the newest technologies, and they were diligently developing tools designed to respond to the needs of the carpenters out there trying to meet the foreman's push to get the job done TODAY.

*I find the upper floors of the Oregon Caves lodge so dreary that I'd never stay there, unless it was free. The outside and the main floors, however, are well worth the (rather awesome) drive if you're in that part of Oregon, and the caves are said to be quite impressive. We didn't go in when we visited last summer, because there are a lot of low passages not suited to over-six-footers with funky mid-backs (me) and a lot of climbing stairs not suitable to five-footers with bad lower backs/hips (LOML). If anyone's vacationing in that area, however, contact me; I've got some recommendations to offer. Oh, am I digressing? Sorry.