There's just no accounting for taste. *LINK*

That's just wrong!!!

Wendell @ Murphy, TX

>I think that's even worse than painting saws. At least you can cleanup a painted saw. I don't know much about wooden plane so I just hope they weren't valuable.

WW

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Chad Boehlke

>WOW!! I could see if the body was very bad, missing blades and wedges, but as a plane man I have a pair like that,its hard to fine good planes like that to use. Thanks for the photo, one more time WOW!!

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Ernie Miller Topeka

>I thought I was having a bad day so I came here to get a pick me up. THANKS for nutthin. They also look like a fire waiting to happen with the wire stapled to the wood like that. want to bet that the insulation is crushed and the staple is almost ready to touch the wires. Think I will swipe that picture and post it on Rogers site for abused tools.

Whose bright idea was that?....Sorry;-)

Eric Hedberg

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Jonathan Peck - N.Y.

>Thanks, that looks like a good display idea. Wish I would have seen the auction earlier, as I would have definitely picked them up for myself. Wonder if I could convert a brace into a nice swing arm lamp :-)

Regards

Jonathan - who doesn't paint saws

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Jonathan Peck - N.Y.

>They might look better mounted as drawer pulls on one of your cabinets, but probably better as a cabinet door handle :-)

Well I actually...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Agree with you here Rob. No accounting for taste. They look like they would make good users.

Scott, gonna start collecting 45's for a chandelier.

Revenge is sweet

joel

>I propose a contest - I will furnish a prize to be determined later (I'll think of something) for the first picture of a lamp that somebody has converted to a plane (for woodworking not flying).

I don't care if it's a bench plane, a molding plane, a plow plane, a rabbet plane, high andgle, low angle, bevel up, bevel down, infill, cast, wooden or any plane but it's gotta make a shaving.

How about a October 31st deadline for entiries?

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joel

>I should mention that the lamp must start out as a working lamp - not a lamp converted from a plane.

Do you suppose......

Bill Ward

>that this is the same person who painted the Panther head saw???????????????????

Want me to

Dan Donaldson

>set up a thread on the Events board like I did before on the hand tool challenge?

(BTW, as soon as we can get the time, that one is going to get a full webpage of it's own. Got to have a gallery of the projects that came from it, awsome;-))

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joel

>sure - but I think we need two prices - one for the first entry that works. The second for the most interesting entry that works.

OK, I will post something tonight

Dan Donaldson

>and put a notice on the boards.

Welcome to my world. :-(

Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level

>I live in central Illinois and I can attest that folks around here often do attrocious things to perfectly good tools. Breaks my heart. There oughta be a law!

Tommy...stuck in Central Illinois where folks use tools for all kinds of useful things...just not for woodworking! Arrrrgh!

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David Miller from Iowa

>Like that guy in Kansas who sawed planes in half to make drawer pulls... (Just hackin on ya, Ernie - it was a cool idea:)

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Joe Rogers, Northern Virginia

>Man...Think of the permutations...I wish I could take some nice painting and use it to saw up some lumber...in front of the artist:-)

Addy protocol my father was an artist and he would have appreciated the joke!JR

I wonder how many?

Marc Broussard

>It seems that every time I go to a flea market or large yard sale there seem to be wooden planes for sale. Over the years I must have seen hundreds. And that's just the places I went to. It seems that wooden planes were made in great numbers as were saws. I think we can spare a few now and then to stretch the boundries (think outside the box) of creative thinking. I see in one catalog where you can buy these planes in group lots (they choose) for cheap. A piece of art (or whatever you call it) made using a woodworking tool can only bring more attention to our craft. Maybe it's a good thing to have tool insensative people hacking up usable planes to light up their lives. Who knows. Maybe in 2104 some yardsaler will find my LN low angle block plane and make an art object out of it. Marc in Mass

You're too hard on the guy Rob

Dave Anderson Chester,NH

>I think you're being a little too hard on the maker there Rob. Obviously the person doing the converting was a novice woodworker. He probably meant to have the lamp mounted upright and 90 degrees from its present position. It is also apparent that he had to work in a poorly lit shop, otherwise he woudn't have needed to add a headlight to the plane. This pair of planes has real antique value as it is obviously one of the early attempts to make a power planer. The maker was truly ambitious, he made not one, but a set of two. Rather than excorciate the maker, we should applaud his ingenuity and committment to advancing the art of woodworking tool design. He will have to rank right up there with Justus Traut, Leonard Bailey, and other luminaries.

Luminaries

Bob Hackett

>Now that`s funny!

Wassa madda,Ya never seen "task lightin" buffor?

MB

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Jack Guzman from Maine

>I think the main problem is that most woodworkers are offended by seeing something of value being defaced for something as trivial as a lamp.To a professional lamp fabricator that piece is a work of art.---Jack

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Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida

>I guess you are right, but if I make an objet d'art from a wooden plane, it will be from one of the banana-shaped hollows and rounds that I aquired on eBay, not what look to be good plough planes! :-(

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Ernie Miller Topeka

>Just because I own the thing dos not mean I made the thing and beside I have it on good athority that that #5 fell off the bench and broke before it was made into a pull. Sire I could have made a new handle for that chisel but making a pull out of it is ok with me after all it's a Craftsman. and I only used two mails to hold that cherry #1 on the front of my bench. I can get the claw hammer out any time and go right on using it. I'm gonna make me a Tiffiny Lamp plane! will stained glass ground at 28� work for a plane blade?