Miscellany - scrub plane; semi-gloat *LINK*
Bill Houghton, overcast in Sebastopol, CA
>Running trim in the kitchen today, I ran into a lumpy spot in the sheetrock (probably telegraphing a lumpy spot in the 115-year-old framing, though it could have been especially bad sheetrock taping on my part) that was preventing the casing from sitting flat. Scrub to the rescue! A few minutes of backing out* over the lump, and the casing snugged right up. Great tool.
On the only hardware store run this week (so far), I stopped by a garage sale, of course...not much, but there was a Millers Falls No. 182 brace, missing its eggbeater part. Thus the semi-gloat. The owner, whom I know (small town, and we've run into him and, before she died, his wife here and there), said he'd look for it, but I am not hopeful. I imagine this part winds up in an alternate universe with No. 45 cam rests, socks, and other such stuff. That universe must be really crowded. I've never quite understood why M-F thought this was a good idea, but the gizmosity level is about high enough not to care.
*I don't know if this is an American term exclusively or common to other colonies and/or the Queen's English. It refers to hollowing out the back side of trim to fit it over lumpy spots. The Stanley scrub, short and narrow, is ideal for this task.
Scroll down a bit for a picture of brace