This is a mystery to me, so if anyone has any ideas or info, please say!
It's a little oddity of a plough plane that I saw on eBay and was intrigued by. I was the only bidder, but then I often am!
It's a small plough plane with a fence, roughly the same size as the much-respected Record 043, but it certainly is an ugly duckling.
The main body is steel, but in standard sections, not cast, making it look like a school metalwork project.
The fence is brass, partly painted, with steel rods and an aluminium knob.
The bit you hold is an aluminium casting, painted black.
The adjustment is odd; the whole blade and skate can be withdrawn through a slot in the depth stop. This photo shows it set to cut a groove:
and here it is with the blade drawn up completely:
This odd arrangement means it can only take tiny blades - it came with just one, 1/8" - it could take 1/4" and maybe just manage 5/16".
The blade holding is odd - there is a bit with a long handle on (reminiscent of the cam clamps on a Lewin) - but the clamping is just done by a wingnut on the other side. It all looks a bit like a prototype where some of the ideas have not been thought through fully.
The parts are held together with Whitworth threaded fasteners and nuts with shakeproof nuts with red plastic inserts
I would have guessed that it was a one-off amateur build, were it not for this:
It's clearly marked "The Goodwood Plane Patents Applied For".
So that makes it sound like a commercial venture - but it's not one I've ever heard of elsewhere or could find anything reference to. Someone thought enough of this to go to the trouble of getting it neatly marked with the name, before it sank without trace.
Has anyone ever seen one of these? Any thoughts about a date or any other information?
It's a little oddity of a plough plane that I saw on eBay and was intrigued by. I was the only bidder, but then I often am!
It's a small plough plane with a fence, roughly the same size as the much-respected Record 043, but it certainly is an ugly duckling.
The main body is steel, but in standard sections, not cast, making it look like a school metalwork project.
The fence is brass, partly painted, with steel rods and an aluminium knob.
The bit you hold is an aluminium casting, painted black.
The adjustment is odd; the whole blade and skate can be withdrawn through a slot in the depth stop. This photo shows it set to cut a groove:
and here it is with the blade drawn up completely:
This odd arrangement means it can only take tiny blades - it came with just one, 1/8" - it could take 1/4" and maybe just manage 5/16".
The blade holding is odd - there is a bit with a long handle on (reminiscent of the cam clamps on a Lewin) - but the clamping is just done by a wingnut on the other side. It all looks a bit like a prototype where some of the ideas have not been thought through fully.
The parts are held together with Whitworth threaded fasteners and nuts with shakeproof nuts with red plastic inserts
I would have guessed that it was a one-off amateur build, were it not for this:
It's clearly marked "The Goodwood Plane Patents Applied For".
So that makes it sound like a commercial venture - but it's not one I've ever heard of elsewhere or could find anything reference to. Someone thought enough of this to go to the trouble of getting it neatly marked with the name, before it sank without trace.
Has anyone ever seen one of these? Any thoughts about a date or any other information?
