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Jerry Nicholson
>I am going to get my bid in early on this really rare Stanley plane but it does look like the knob needs to be refinished.
Jerry
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Ernie Miller
>I have one like that but it is in such pristine condition that the wood is totaly invisable. 100% japanning though. Think of it as a kit plane.
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#3"Sponge Plane" Rare patented self-oiling design*
Cooper suter
>*oil not included in this example*
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Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level
>Gee, the shipping cost alone exceeds my budget for that one. I would advise the user to wear gloves....for obvious reasons.
Tommy
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Tom MacGregor
>This is actually a near mint example of one half of a match set of trancendental smoothers. Part of every well equipped Zen toolkit, one plane is used for working wood and the other is used for not working wood.
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#6It's not a joke plane
Eric Hedberg
>It's obviously one of the early planes that Stanley marketed to the Scandinavian market. Swedes in particular are fussy about minimizing everythings size so Stanley developed a plane that when not in use would shrink down to a smaller size. This Loofa plane in its storage state looks a bit knarly and small, but add a little water and it swells up to size. The design met with some success, but it's susceptability to changes in humidity doomed its future. Surprisingly, minus the adjustable blade it found a successful niche in the exfolliantion market and inspired the later Stanley Surfoam. Eric