Blind squirl?

Re: Blind squirl?

Ernie miller Topeka ks

>here is what I found it is a small 60 1/2 size adjustable mouth block plane with a busted lever cap. I had one that fit it but it was wrong so I started cleaning it up cleaned the rust off the sides and sole cleaned and made the mouth function. when I went to clean the blade I was suprised to find this on the blade. L BAILEYS PATENT AUG 6 67 AUG 31 EXD IS this could this be a real L BAILEYS plane? it looks right from the pictures I have seen. The good news bad news is I also have a Adjustable mouth 9 1/2 size that is missing the blade and levercap Please tell me I am a blind squirl.

It looks nice

Jim Reed @ Tallahassee

>I'll give you $1.00 and you don't even have to finish cleaning 8-) It is always nice to find an acorn every now and then. Kinda locks you into rust hunting even more.

Blind.... YOU SUCK.... Squirl..:>)

vlparisian - cold & wet wet wet Houston

>NIce find.

Victor - heading for bed

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Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI

>Too early in the morning to dig out my book, but that logo I think was a very early Stanley logo. That is a very early block plane from Stanley I think; you can see the difference in the shape of the side. I envy your box full of toys. I will look around a little and see if I happen to have a lever cap to match that plane, but I really doubt that I do.

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Ernie Miller

>here is the blade logo my book dosen't show it with the bottom line added would this put it at the end of the 1869-73 time period or at the beginning? or is this somthing totaly differant. What about a cp iron? what should it look like? Thanks

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Dale Stansbery

>Ernie, I can tell you that a nice condition complete version of that plane is worth about $150 on Ebay. In the sad condition yours is in, who knows.

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Ernie Miller

>I'm thinking $50? unless I find a lever cap

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Sgian Dubh

>I wish I knew what a squirl is, or was. Anyone care to enlighten me? Must be a word from some local dialect is my best guess. Slainte.

Only Ernie can say for sure,

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>but I suspect you've been fooled by creative spelling of the word "squirrel."

My first thought was of the sound of bagpipes, but it doesn't work in the context.

The saying I grew up with (OT)

Wiley Horne

>in the American South was that 'even a blind hog finds an acorn every once in a while'. A hog, not a squirrel. We had plenty of squirrels running up and down the oak and pecan trees, so can't account for the discrepancy in regionalisms.

Wiley

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Todd Hughes

>Is a Stanley 9 1/2, Stanley used that blade logo from 1875 - 1890, with the top of the lever cap missing it is a little hard to date it but I think it is either a type 5 or 6 and dates from the 1880-86. Starting in 1887 the caps had a cross hatched finish yours looks to be smooth. Could be a type 4 but with the lever cap busted off doesn't make any difference because the top of the lever cap is about the only difference between a type 4 and 5

This plane, if a type 5 or 6 books out at $35-85,... in the shape yours is in probably a $5 -$10 plane tops. Actually the blade is probably worth more then the entire plane and could go for $20-$30 to a desperate guy with a type 4 and the wrong blade.

...In my experance these things are not all that rare except in excellent condition

I probably couldn't have helped myself either and would have bought that box lot for $5 too...Looks like the wooden box was sturdy and good for stacking stuff in at least....Todd

Re: Only Ernie can say for sure,

Sgian Dubh

>Bill, I guess you're right now that I think about it. I remember now that when I lived in Houston, for some reason none of the locals could actually say the word squirrel. It always came out missing the r's and sounded like skwurl, or I suppose sqirl.

They reckoned I said squirrel oddly because my slight Scottish burr means the r's in the middle of the word are fully sounded and the word came out with two definite syllables.

At my work at the time the American employees had fun sneakily trying to get me to say words like squirrel just so they could hear my strange accent. I got wise to it pretty quickly and would say things like tree rat instead, ha, ha.

I never did find out what Americans where on about when they talked about their new-queue-ler industry or new-queue-ler arms, ha, ha--- ha, ha, ha. Slainte.

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Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Now, now, Richard, no fair to talk about American dialects as being equated with southern dialects. Even the UK has some pretty unintelligible accents. There was a BBC show I watched a few years ago that I had to run captions for to even begin to understand. One of the actors in that show played in the first and last Prime Suspect shows, a character named Bill, older man. I still had to use captions to understand him.

Pam

Re: Only Ernie can say for sure,

Sgian Dubh

>Pam, I couldn't resist having a bit of fun though once I'd got the idea of what a squirl is. Talking of difficult accents to understand, I'm not sure who you mean in Prime Suspect, but even for us Brits it can be hard to understand all the local dialects and accents, so you have my sympathy there. Slainte.

Re: Only Ernie can say for sure,

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>No problems anywhere on this for me; but I'd like to point out that Ernie may indeed be able to say squirrel so that you'd understand it. He just can't type it, or maybe spell it. :)

Pam

During WWII

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>my father - born and bred in Seattle, Portland, Oregon, and Oakland, California (across from San Francisco, for the international crowd) - was stationed in Texas, and found himself having to translate for two colleagues born in different parts of the South. It's not just Brits who find regional accents and dialects hard to understand (and, by the way, in my experience this issue exists not just with Southern US accents vs. other parts of the States).

GeeZZ

Ernie Miller

>Man o MAn I' betting I can do either I'm afraid that things are going to get worse befor they get better as I have Carpel tunnel in my right hand and am wearing a brace for now The combination of fat fingers lack of spelling and limited mobility in my right hand is going to make your lives a living hell for a while. I get to see a real doctor about in in three weeks. The vet I am seeing now gave me this brace and some horse tranqualizers so at least I'm not in any pain.

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Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away

>The vet I am seeing now gave me this brace and some horse tranqualizers so at least I'm not in any pain.

Watch it Ernie ! Them vets like to CASTRATE!! :~o

I didn't realize that you was in some much pain and discomfort.

Perhaps we need to call you Cripl Squirl instead. ;~)

T.O.

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Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Wow, Ernie, don't worry about it, had no idea you had cts. How did this happen?

Pam

BTW Don't bother to answer if it's a chore, I'm just being nosy.

Not to worry, Ernie

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>Spelling on this forum's kind of creative a lot of the time - and your ideas come through fine.

I had a deaf coworker for a while who used a TDD a lot, and noticed that she didn't pay much attention to spelling; more interested in talking, so she typed really fast, and sometimes a bit sloppy. I understood her, although I occasionally teased her about her Irish accent (she tended to spell "fine" as "foine").