Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
Plane question
JL
>I haven't seen the planes, so I don't know what moldings they carve. A guy I'm taking a class with has several (7-8) planes that were used to do large moldings (boat and yacht rails he said). They are wood planes with irons and wedges. He doesn't want them. What would be a fair price? They are large (12-18" long).
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Todd Hughes
>Well with out more information , like who made them, what condition, and what types I would say they could be worth between $5.00 and $10,000.00 each. Maybe more but probably not less.....With out more infomation this is like asking..."A friend has a car, what would be a fair price to pay him for it?"
The planes are the guys property and as a seller he should be telling you the price he wants.Not the buyers job to price his stuff for him.If he can't or won't tell you what he wants offer him $25 for the lot and go from there.........Todd
Re: Plane question
JL
>No makers marks on any of them. He inherited them from his father, who got them from who knows where. I told him to plane a few things with them to display the curves.
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George@Colonel's Workshop-Havertown PA
>Good Evening Todd,
I came across a DEAL like that. A person at work was selling his grandfather's planes and asked if I wanted them. He couldn't tell me anything about them. I offered him $30. He put the box in my wagon the next day. A Stanley #80, Bailey #3C, #4, #8, a Stanley #78, and a tiny little Stanley bull nose a couple inches long. His grandfather was a carpenter who believed in caring for his tools. No rust, and all the irons were sharp. Good deal, I think.
George
Contrary to Todd's approach...
Conger - the Irish diaspora in Munich
>... I recommend you offer him $10,000 each, and go up in $5 increments from there. You will see that he will soften up pretty quickly.
-g-
Re: Plane question
Adam Cherubini
>JL,
When I think of a plane for shipbuilding, and its 12-18" long, I think spar planes. I don't know what you are into, but I don't see a lot of use for such things. Not to assume everyone wants to do what I want to do, I'm guessing there is a very limited market for tools like this, thus a low price. I'd be wary of offering even molding plane prices ($10-20/per) for these things.
If you get them cheap and find little use for them and you're possibly willing to donate them, or if you just want to know more, I'd contact the davistown museum or mystic seaport. Believe it or not, there is a group in Philadelphia at Penn's landing and I don't know who they are or anything about them. You'd think I would know something like that being in a family of boat builders and all...Sir William may know.
Ingratiating yourself to museum workers is a good idea. Take our own Warren Mickley for example. He had the audacity to visit Pennsbury. Instead of a relaxing chat, or a personal tour, we snookered him into finishing one of our projects while we needled him endlessly. (Thanks again for coming Warren. I promise we'll do that tour next time. Promise... Really... I mean it this time.)
Okay, so second thought, maybe you can sell them to a TGI Fridays or get out some drywall screws and screw them to your own kitchen walls.
Adam
P.S. You know if Warren wasn't such a great craftsman, I'd feel really bad about how I treated him. But with skills like his....
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Bob Hutchins in central TX
>Howdy JL!
I believe Bob Smalser spends some time at the Wooden Boat Museum on Lake Union in Seattle. Search for a post by him and ping him. He might know something about boat builders' planes.
BTW, if you get a chance to visit the museum, take it. I stumbled upon it quite accidentally (it was beside an al fresco Italian restaurant, IIRC) in 1989 when I was in Seattle on a business trip cum long weekend getaway with Her Ladyship. Got to chat with some nice people and enjoyed looking at a lot of boats, one of which was quite large and under restoration at the time.
BobH