What's this plane
Mike Ellington From the Arch City
>Here is a plane that I aquried at a garage sale.
It cost me $5.00 bucks, was it a good deal?
Its name is StS SIEGLEY its 15" long 2 3/4" wide.
wooden body.
What's this plane
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Mike Ellington From the Arch City
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Joe Rogers, Northern Virginia
>Can't help much from this picture but it is a transitional plane. Manufactured by a company to bridge the gap between woodies and metallic planes. It has the blade adjuster and levercap of the metal bodied plane and the sole of the wood bodied plane.
SOME woodworkers use them for firewood(not me)JR
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Mike Ellington From the Arch City
>Thanks. LOL Five bucks don't go as far as it use to do! I thought I had found the lost dutchman's gold mine, it seems that I bought one of those Logs they sell to start fires in your home fire place. Oh well, it has a sharp blade and it fits in my hand. I guess I'll just use it to campher wood.
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Jim DeLaney, Austintown, Ohio
>Mike,
Don't let Joe scare you. Some of us really like the old transitionals. I frequently use my old 35's (I have three) and a 26 & 28. If the wood is solid, all it may need is a bit of truing up the sole to compensate for wear, and maybe putting a new piece at the front of the mouth to tighten it up a bit.
Many of the transitionals aren't Stanleys, but are Sargents (most common) or Ohio. I find them all pretty much equally well made.
Clean yours up and use it. It may even become a favorite...
New Stanley or aftermarket blades will fit if the original is too worn or rusted to salvage
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John K in Hastings, MN
>Yeah, they work great, that looks a lot like the Fulton transitional jack planes I have. The wood feels a lot 'softer' in use than a metal plane, adjustment works the same. No reason not to tune it up and use it, they don't take much... lapping the sole, for instance, is a breeze!
John
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Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI
>The transitionals are not highly collectable, but I wouldn't use them for firewood. They are sometimes called that though ;) They can be pleasant to work with. For $5, you got a great deal; you will have many hours of entertainment with it. I jsut did a search for "Siegley transitional" completed items on the bay and only came up with one nice little plane that sold for $15. You could have an interesting project researching the Siegley company and posting your findings.
Siegley Transitional
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Mike Ellington From the Arch City
>Thanks everyone for your imput.
Moses I'll do just as you suggested.
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Mike Ellington From the Arch City
>It looks as the plane was built by Stanley for a St. Louis company, Bridge Tool Company. I've been reading all morning and Can't find anything about this company here in St. louis. But, I'll keep at it untill I get to the bottom of this mystery
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Todd Hughes
>This is a Stanley made Siegly transitional plane. Stanley bought out Siegly around 1905 and made these planes using this name till around the end of the 1920's. They are almost identical to the regular Stanley transitional except the laterial lever is a bit different.The had two types of cutters some were marked SsS which stood for Stanley Steel Siegly and ones like yours StS which is thicker and stands for Stanley Thick Siegly. Siegly pre Stanley metal planes are somewhat collectable and pretty neat , less so with the transitional planes though yours looks to be in very nice condition which is a little bit unusual , most I see are pretty rough. Also in my experance most seem to have the SsS blades which must have been more popular then the thicker blade .......Todd
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Ernie Miller *Topeka
>Looks like a nice plane tune it use it. that one is nicer than mine. you should see the KK one I goe a week or so ago it has been chewed on by a bever or a pack rat and some how the blade got snapped in half. I wonder what I will do with them parts?