Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
Anyone have an extra fence for a No. 71 to trade?
Bill Houghton, foggy mornings in Sebastopol, CA
>My newly acquired No. 71 is the first non-broken one that has the grooves for the fence. I can buy one from Stanley, and probably will down the road, but in the meantime, anyone happen to have an extra in their parts box that they'd like to trade for something? If so, please e-mail me.
Not very useful
jim reed @ tallahassee
>Adding a fence certainly set the #71 apart from its competition, but I question its usefulness. I use my #71s all the time to set hinges where the fence would be a big bother. I am still looking for a reason to use it. I am sure there has to be one. And no, I cannot trade you my fence--I may need it someday. Good luck in your quest.
I might
Neal in San Jose
>Lemme look tonight when I get home. I ended up getting two 71s for the price of one, and I think they both have fences. Like Jinm said, they aren't a high-use item. I can't remember using either one. You going to the BAGATHON? We could hook up there.
Re: Anyone have an extra fence for a No. 71 to tra
William Duffield, on the Cohansey
>I don't understand why a fence would not be useful on a rabbet plane, if you actually use it to make rabbets. Doesn't a rabbet benefit from a defined depth and width? I realize that most of us have electron eating table saws and even routhahs, that can be a lot quicker and more precise at making rabbets, but it still seems disingenuous to recommend against an inherent feature of a #78 that allows it to execute the joint it was designed and marketed to create. Even if it is being used only as a butt mortise plane, a fence would be useful. If someone is using a #78 instead of a block plane or a smoother (just because the price is right), someone needs to get an imagination. Is there some other unique #78 function that I've missed?
Until I get (a) retired, (b) caught up, and
Bill Houghton, foggy mornings in Sebastopol, CA
>(c) done dealing with selling my parents' house, I'm not going anywhere.
But I'm just up the road from you, so, if you do find you've got an extra, postage shouldn't be much. Let me know offline what you're looking for, and I can dig around in my stuff for a fair trade.
Bill, looking forward to retirementland...
71 - router plane, not rabbet plane
Bill Houghton, foggy mornings in Sebastopol, CA
>I agree. I can't imagine doing without a fence on a No. 78; though there are times when what the authors of "Planecraft" call a "square plane," which is what you get when you remove the fence and depth stop from a 78, is right useful.
But my question was about a router plane, where a fence seems like it would mainly be useful for stopped grooves on the edge of a board, and maybe not even then.
Given the heroic efforts you and your admin colleagues have been putting into fighting the spam monster, Sir W., we can forgive your eyes blurring a bit.
No joy
Neal in San Jose
>Only have one fence, and I don't want to part with it. You might check with your neighbor, Pete Neiderberger.
Pete has so much iron...
jim reed @ tallahassee
>that his house leans toward New Britain. I am sure he has a BOX of #71 fences along with those pesky screws they need. One of the BEST sources for Stanley parts I know of.