Bought some nice joiners stuff on Ebay this week.

[Adam W.]

Stuff for the Tool Tart chest.

Been shopping for stuff I don't really need as usual.

Marples Cast steel 3/8ths parer with an ebony handle.

No name rosewood or mahogany slitting gauge (haven't seen it yet, so can't really say for sure).

and a heavy joiner made smoother with a James Howarth iron. I think it's lignum and weighs a lot. I've been wanting a boxwood one, but this will do just nicely instead.

 

[AJB Temple]

Nice.

 

[peterw3035]

"Been shopping for stuff I don't really need as usual" I'm pleased to hear I'm not the only one suffering that affliction
But you've picked up some lovely items

 

[HOJ]

Been working away, paid a visit to family on route and we got talking about work, oh say they, got some of both my BIL's grandad and mine, planes in loft:




"Yankee" screwdriver is apparently from the 1930's.

 

[whereistheceilidh]

Looks some nice tools Adam.
I hate to say it though, especially to you, but it does not look like Lignum grain to me....but then I do not have it in my hand.

 

[Adam W.]

Looks some nice tools Adam.
I hate to say it though, especially to you, but it does not look like Lignum grain to me....but then I do not have it in my hand.

You may be right, I'll see if it sinks or floats.

 

[whereistheceilidh]

I was tempted to suggest a float test but some folk are adverse to that sort of things with tools.
Navy did it all the time......

 

[Adam W.]

Float test conducted under strict scientific parameters.......

 

[Adam W.]

It may still be something else though, I'm not really any good with identifying tropical woods.

 

[whereistheceilidh]

Superb Adam.
Lignum it probably is.....I have not seemn many planes in Greenheart.......

 

[worn thumbs]

Superb Adam.
Lignum it probably is.....I have not seemn many planes in Greenheart.......

I think you may have just seen one! The picture of the sole looks exactly like greenheart,but if so,the man that made it wouldn't have had an easy time making it.Which would also apply to lignum vitae.Neither of which would wear out in a hurry.

 

[Adam W.]

I think I got my 10 quids worth, just for the labour alone. It must have taken hours to make it.

 

[Max Power]

I think you may have just seen one! The picture of the sole looks exactly like greenheart,but if so,the man that made it wouldn't have had an easy time making it.Which would also apply to lignum vitae.Neither of which would wear out in a hurry.

Around forty five years ago when I was still a teenager my father acquired some greenheart (might have been from a retiring shipwrights) As I only had hand tools he took it to a local cabinet makers he knew to get dimensioned and dressed. Upon collection he was told to never bring anymore as the ssaw had been smoking cutting it up.

 

[whereistheceilidh]

If it is Greenheart Adam, as Worn Thumbs kindly suggested, then I suspect your plane has lasted longer the the makers lungs. As Max Power said it is not pleasant to work with.

 

[BillHoughton]

Is that Yankee screwdriver labeled "North Bros?" If so, it's definitely older than 1946 (the year Stanley acquired North Bros).

Always nice to get family stuff.