Fun with Stanley iron

12/30/05, 10:57 PM #1

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA, gettin' soggy
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Fun with Stanley iron

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA, gettin' soggy

>I just finished planing down the edge of a (sticking)* door in the bedroom. When I finished, the mortise lockset stuck out too far and would have rubbed. Stanley No. 71 to the rescue! It took me longer to try the lockset once and decide I needed it a little deeper than it took to knock the shallow part of the mortise down. Consistent depth; smooth finish. I know Stanley produced these longer than other tools, but why in heck did carpenters ever let them escape from the toolbox?

*Our theory is a very minor earthquake - at the same time that door started to stick more, the closet door began to rub at the top corner.

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12/31/05, 1:08 AM #2

Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI
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Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI

>I used my #71 for the exact same thing this fall, the first time I ever used it, and had the exact same experience :)

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12/31/05, 7:32 AM #3

Scott Burr in really rainy Ben Lomond,CA
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Scott Burr in really rainy Ben Lomond,CA

>I would have thought you'd use your butt moritse plane:^)

The 71 is a really nice plane isin't it.

How you doing with this storm Bill? Look like you got hit today, I'm told we're getting in the early morning...

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12/31/05, 4:47 PM #4

Joe Rogers, Northern Virginia
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Joe Rogers, Northern Virginia

>Probably the iron is too big for the job with the butt mortise plane.JR

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12/31/05, 5:04 PM #5

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA, gettin' soggy
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Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA, gettin' soggy

>Less fussing with setting depth, since the butt mortise plane is set by guess. And, well, I wanted to try out the 71, which I've owned for a while but hadn't had occasion to use.

Will probably use it again today - the back door's swollen enough to stick.

Rain, Scott? What rain? We heard that, in some parts of the North Coast, we were getting two inches/hour overnight. The Russian River was expected to crest about four feet above flood level early this a.m., and I need to get out to see if La Laguna de Santa Rosa, the river that runs just east of Sebastopol, went over the bridge today. Our house is high enough that we don't worry about being flooded out, though we could get flooded in, with all roads blocked, if this keeps up. I spent about half an hour mid-week clearing mud out of the trench behind my shop, so it would stop flooding over the top of the slab at the back, remembering partway through that, when I donated blood an hour before, they said, "No strenuous activity tonight."

But...I'm off this week (the University moves several holidays to this last week, so I was supposed to think about Mr. Lincoln yesterday, since it's our official celebration of his birthday), and the weather's supposed to clear up just as I go back to work - not fair!

Fun with Stanley iron

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