Stanley Brass # 71
Robin Frierson
>Did Stanley ever make a Brass #71. I saw one on Ebay and was surprised to see a Brass Stanley plane. How rare are they?
Stanley Brass # 71
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Mike G.
>I've got a Bronze # 71 It is slightly smaller than the original, which was a type 2. It was a patternmaker's copy. I would assume that the one you're describing is also the same...a copy.
Mike G.
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David Miller from Iowa
>Mike's right. Imagine yourself working in a brass foundry - the used to be very common in this country. All you have to do is dissasemble a plane, use it for a pattern to imprint the casting sand, and pour it in the next batch. Some finish work (all tools likely at hand) and you have a free brass plane.
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walt quadrato
>Lots of the old timers "rolled" their own. I live in Waterbury CT..the "Brass City"..note Brass City Records and Brass City Toolworks..you'd think that these patternmakers repros would be everywhere..under every rock as they say..but they're really not so common. I'll wager some got trashed..some got lost and some ended up scrapped or slagged. I've got one brass shave with gull winged handles and a brass scraper shave..very thin and elegant..and that's after years & years of fleas.
walt q
Brass City
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Russ Allen - Chicago
>I've had pretty good luck in finding recast tools. I have a 71, a type 2 45, a 95 and a Stanley #49 adjustable bit gauge. I've seen a 78 and 190 but they were overpriced.
I occasionally make patterns and like to use pattern maker's tools under the assumption that the tool will know what to do. With a recast tool there is little doubt that it once belonged to a pattern maker.
Russ Allen
Chicago
my recast tool collection
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Kurt Loup, Baton Rouge
>I have a brass copy of a Stanley rabbet spoke shave.
Kurt
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Todd Hughes
>I have seen a good many brass copies of 71's and own at least one. I bought a complete big tool chest that had belonged to a pattern maker and it was in it. Have also seen a Union no. 4 size plane and a very well done 10 1/2.You would think they would be be worth more then the factory tools but unless you get some "farmers" who don't know nothing bidding they go for less.
Last month at a antique show I saw a buffed brass 71 that the owner was trying to sell as a presentation piece,[I've seen them labled as prototypes too]. Kind of funny....Todd
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Mike G.
>I've also got a small gull wing shave, too. It's only 4 inches wide with a one inch blade, plus a couple of aluminum castings of a set of large trammel points, sans "points" and tightening screw. They were also in a patternmakers toolchest I bought a couple of years ago.
Mike G.