Planes as art *LINK*

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steve knight

>is it any worse then putting them on your mantel?

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David Miller from Iowa

>When I was first divorced, I had planes all over the living room. But they were in use - Had to move the TV off the workmate to use them

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Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native in FL. Exile :~(

>At least it's not a lamp eh.

At one time this may of been a family momento of a loving Dad, Grandfather, Uncle, etc, etc, sooooooooo, I guess I'd rather see it framed like that than in some dark, dang, dirt floored forgotten shed somewhere just rotting away. Hopefully some tool lover will buy it and liberate it from it's cage.

Got two buddies who are fans of painted saws, which I am strongly averse too, but I tell them that at least they are are being preserved and that the paint can come off. They don't like it when I say that, but I don't like seeing that Disston rip, or the beautiful giant two man crosscut all painted up. Just kills me.

O/T- Sometimes when I'm at the flea market or something and come across one of them folks sellin' snakes and am in the mood for some fun I'll say "Boy, I bet he'd be good eatin'! They give me nasty looks, and I laugh.

Todd O.

Planes as art - wandering from your question

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA, the rain's here

>We went to a benefit art show - Food for Thought, a local AIDS group, if I recall correctly - and someone had done a quite nice photorealistic painting of a Stanley No. 36 transitional plane, presenting it as some kind of iconic figure in the middle of the picture.

Now, I have a No. 36 myownself ($10, rummage sale, years ago), and fully intend to spiff it up sometime for use, and I agree that they're darn pretty planes. But I didn't bid on the painting. Why buy a picture when you've got the real goods?

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Wiley Horne--Glendora CA

>Very considerable industrial art was displayed in an ordinary pre-WWI Stanley plane or Disston saw or Witherby chisel. Or their British, European, and Japanese counterparts. I am grateful that these folks saw fit to make totes, lever caps, saw handles, and chisel sockets so handsome as well as functional.

These relics from the mechanical age are beautiful. I kinda think that's why we're hooked on em. And they weren't boutique items--these things were made by ordinary workmen (and women, in the case of Disston handles) for other ordinary workmen.

So I like seeing em displayed in their original condition. They make all the extruded and injection molded stuff we're surrounded by look pretty gimcrack.

Wiley

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Glenn Madsen

>There's a transitional on my den bookshelf, looking beautiful, as a reminder of an earlier age.

No way I'm gonna use it instead of a Knight or a Veritas or a pre-WWII Stanley.

It was a gift from my sister, who only knew I loved old tools.

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paul womack

>Anyone remember the ornamentally engraved Holtey he had on his site for a while?

More a "tool shaped demonstration" of craft skills than a tool.

BugBear

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Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>I bought a smoother a few months ago made my Michio Tasai that is a working smoother but also forged such that the joint of soft and hard steels is a wave pattern, on both main and sub blades. It's called "On," which means something like goodness. It's beautiful to behold and probably very difficult to do. This design adds, so far as I know, nothing to the planing action and also means the blade's usefulness will be diminished/shortened as the troughs are breached. Oh, yes, and I paid $200-300 extra for it. That's art. :)

Pam

how about a photo, Pam?

Clay Home

>Sounds interesting ...

Clay