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David Miller from Iowa

>Mine have standard, very good, handles - offer still stands - supply your own iron and wedge

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Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida

>I am no wooden plane expert, but maybe it is an authentic 18th century plane, or something?

I agree with you, some 1920s Sandusky missing the blade is not worth much (except in an anteek store).

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Paul In NJ

>You can always use the quarter sawn beech from those planes to re-hab, re-sole, or re-mouth other planes.

Paul Dzioba

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Melvin Willis

>But apparently the plane is made of Birch :)

Early Plane

Todd Hughes

>While you can't put a for sure date on an unsigned plane this plane does have features of an 18th. century plane,Pegged Off set handle,wide champhers,birch, and while the handle shape isn't for sure a 1700's style handle it is sort of.Did he say it had a single iron ? if so thats another good sign. But again can't say for sure as to date, best you can do is say "18th century style" plane. These early style bench planes in my experance are pretty uncommon, much more so then 18th cent. molding planes, I don't see them much thats for sure. While I sort of doubt you have been throwing many away....if you have, eh,.. where have you been throwing them? .....Todd

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David Miller from Iowa

>I posted a gloat in the summer about how my brother and I bought 130 planes, 30 drawknives, an 20 bit braces from a guy for $600.

After we split it up, I had maybe 12 of these old timers. Three were pretty decent with irons, I kept those, two were great but no irons - those are the ones mentioned above, and the rest went in the trash. They were not great (about the same or poorer than the eBay link) and had no irons. I also had about 30 no name 3,4,5 size planes that I stripped for parts (totes, knobs, cutters, and lever caps) and tossed the bones. I kept a few of the drawknives and braces, and donated the rest to this forum.

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Todd Hughes

>Now did the ones you trashed have off set totes, wide champhers,made of birch or other features of 18th century planes like the ebay one,[or 1700's makers stamps] or were they just common mid 1800's wood bench planes?...There is a Very BIG difference ......Todd , who would be very surprised if 12 18th century bench planes were found together

surprised if 12 18th century bench planes were fou

Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida

>But oh, what a delight it would be.

Not if.....

Todd Hughes

>8 of them got thrown out in the trash because the person didn't know what they were.....Todd