Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
cruising with Peugeot Freres *LINK*
Mike McDaniel
>Last summer I scored a horned smoother at an estate sale. I've been trying to find out what I had ever since. Cruising the hand tools archive tonight, and "wa-laa". Almost one year ago, this tool maker was the subject of conversation, on this site. If you look at the plain shown on this url, and put iron on the bottom half, you'd have my plane. Free beer for everybody!
http://www.holzwerken.de/museum/bench/putzhobel3.phtml
It's a good thing you didn't...
Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA
>Put a "where you are" in your name block after the free beer remark Mike...;^)
Any more info on Peugeot Freres??
Doug Littlejohn
>I have a few chisels with that name on them and have struck out so far learning anything about them.
TIA,
Sherwood
Re: It's a good thing you didn't...
Mike McDaniel
>Yeh! I guess I dropped the ball on that one. It was late and I was so giddy over finding the information, that I lost my manners. I would have gladly bought for a few new found friends, though by the time the Sun came up, and nobody responded, I figured "last call", had saved me.
Mike McDaniel,
Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia
Re: Any more info on Peugeot Freres?? *LINK*
Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA
>The link below implies that the company was part of the same company that made Peugeot cars - not too well known in this country, especially by anyone under 50, since they stopped importing some years back.
A google search turned up lots of tools - apparently, they were pretty productive.
Peugeot Freres
Re: Any more info on Peugeot Freres??
Mike McDaniel
>I must be missing something, because I still just get cars. Was there a link from that url, where you ran into tools.
Mike McDaniel,
WV
No, not directly (wanders OT)
Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA
>but the logo similarity tipped me off.
I found a surprising number of the tools for sale when I ran a Google search - just never knew.
Bill, picturing a smoothing plane with a sunroof*
*another old-guys joke. In the U.S., Peugeots were among the first imports in the 1950s to come with a sunroof standard. My dad had one on his lot for a little while, and I thought it was so cool, I had it open whenever I drove it. I would signal out turns by sticking my hand out the sunroof and pointing right or left. Other drivers surely thought I was crazy (oh, hey! I was! I also used to drag cars at stoplights with my parents' 1952 Plymouth flathead six; I could beat most cars up to about 30 mph, but they'd pass me after that).