#5 1/4 @ $274 *LINK*

Re: #5 1/4 "C" @ $274

Ted Shuck

>The important aspect about this plane is that it is a 5 1/4 C. "C" as in corrugated and collectable. Patrick Leach, on his superiorworks website claims that this is the rarest of all Stanely Bailey planes.

Ted

Re: #5 1/4 @ $274

Tom MacGregor

>The corrugated 5-1/4 is uncommon and collectable. The proper lever cap would not be too hard to find, the winner could even swipe one from the same type smooth bottom 5-1/4 to complete it.

Re: #5 1/4 @ $274

Jonathan Peck - N.Y.

>The #5 1/4C and the #2C are rare and collectable. I don't think it is completely out of line to suggest that there are fakes out there, as after market corrugations by the handy enthusiast could increase the asking price if it were not made clear to the buyer that he was buying a modified and not collectable plane. How's that for a run on sentence. Hope I answered correctly. One other model that is rare and collectable is the #605 1/4.

Re: #5 1/4 @ $274

Ben Franklin

>My 5 1/4 has a "transitional" lever cap. too.

I was thinking that it was wrong, a prototype, or something. Not so... I was told that ( according to Walters? ) it is one of the possible lever caps for the 5 1/4.

Not that I've seen the actual reference... And as you've pointed out, it looks mighty weird...

Ben Franklin

Re: #5 1/4 @ $274

Todd Hughes

>I am pretty sure that the lever cap on the ebay 5 1/4 is not from a transitional plane but instead is from a Four Square line house hold Jack Plane. This plane is the same size as a 5 1/4 and has a stippled cap with Stanley on it on the early models befor it went to the 4 square markings.These were cheaper planes that did not have frog adjusting screws and judging from the number i have seen must have been about as popular as a reg. 5 1/4 probably esp. with schools which were a major market for this size plane,[supposedly]. Have seen more then a few mis identifed as 5 1/4's with the wrong lever cap

Will point out that a common No. 3 has the same lever cap as a 5 1/4.....Todd

Re: #5 1/4 @ $274

Ben Franklin

>Thanks, Todd.

I think my 5 1/4 has a 4 square decal on the tote. I'll have to take another look at it.

Ben

Re: #5 1/4 @ $274

Kurt Loup, Baton Rouge

>One of the 5 1/4's I have has the "transitional" cap.

Kurt

Re: #5 1/4 @ $274

dave caudill

>I saw one of these at our PNTC Bestin the West tool meet a couple weeks ago. Had the normal lever cap on it but they did have a price tag of $300 on it. Which fomr what I have seen at other meets and auctions is a pretty fair price. A number 2C is going to cost you $600-$800. So the 5 1/4c is a bargain!

Dave

Very Instering...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>I have a 5.25C and mine has a regular lever cap. Looks like I've made a good investment too;).

Re: #5 1/4 @ $274

Kurt Loup, Baton Rouge

>To clarify, the 5 1/4 I have is a $20 ebay plane that I am using as a scrub plane. Not a 5 1/4C.

Kurt

Creating mysterious collector's planes

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>I own two No. 6 planes, one of which has a lever cap from a 2-3/8"-wide-iron transitional plane because I gave the original to a fellow Centralian. I had to choose between keeping the transitional plane lever cap and sending it to him - and I like the stippled effect.

So, 100 years from now (I plan to live for a long time, and then my grandchildren will use it before their grandchildren sell it, not knowing what it is), future Centralians, or possibly (Alpha) Centaurians, will speculate on whether it was an alternate lever cap for that model of Post-WWII Stanley. Or not. Either way, I'll have had fun.

Bill, whose 5-1/4 frankenplane (lever cap off an Eclipse plane, because it came without a lever cap) cost about $10 total.