details of 80's planing gadget sought

[bugbear]

This is driving me nuts. I've got a memory of an attachment for a #4 or #5; it was a pair of out riggers that projected
below the sole of the plane that were adjustable for depth; it allowed the making of very accurately thicknessed small parts with a handplane,
and was regularly advertised in the small ads/Classified section of some wodworking magazines.

I've just spent "too long" flicking through some of my boxes of magazines, and I can't find it.

Can anyone recall a name, or find the ad?

BugBear

 

[MIGNAL]

Don't know but if it worked I want one!

 

[undergroundhunter]

Me too......

Matt

 

[rafezetter]

I posted a thread a while ago about a new plane design that had this feature

http://www.bridgecitytools.com/defa...ols/ct-18-dual-low-angle-smoothing-plane.html

 

[xy mosian]

Hi BB,
I am having trouble imagining a method of attaching anything to a 'standard' Bailey type plane easily.
Is it possible that it might have been for an electric plane? Attached via holes intended for a guide?
xy

 

[Cheshirechappie]

If you have a copy of Wearing's 'Making Woodwork Aids and Devices', he describes a home-made jig to do just this on pages 80 and 81.

(If you don't have a copy, you now have an excellent excuse to acquire one!)

 

[AndyT]

It's not what you are describing BB but could you be misremembering this device from the ever ingenious Robert Wearing?

Or else, I've just half remembered a Stanley patent special for planing weaving shuttles...I think it's in PTMPIA.

Edit: CC beat me to it but I was busy uploading a photo!

 

[MMUK]

Depth Skids An American invention I believe.....

Google for the Bridge City Tool Works CT-18

 

[MMUK]

Hi BB,
I am having trouble imagining a method of attaching anything to a 'standard' Bailey type plane easily.
Is it possible that it might have been for an electric plane? Attached via holes intended for a guide?
xy

I would imagine you could fabricate something that hooks over the casting with a knurled knob to tighten them into place...

 

[toolsntat]

Being unaware of just such an attachment being previously available it would seem I have dropped somewhat of a goolie #-o

There was a Marples smoother at the Lamport show with one on and I passed it by as a user made modification :evil: :twisted:

Hope it is still there next year :roll: :lol:

Andy

 

[J_SAMa]

It's not what you are describing BB but could you be misremembering this device from the ever ingenious Robert Wearing?



Or else, I've just half remembered a Stanley patent special for planing weaving shuttles...I think it's in PTMPIA.

Edit: CC beat me to it but I was busy uploading a photo!

Well what do you know... I was just watching this:
http://woodworkingmasterclasses.com/201 ... s-planing/

Not that I've ever tried or even seen what BB describes, but depth skids don't sound as easy to use as the one above. The one above is fixed and depth skids move with the plane... There's just something unsettling to me about moving jigs...

 

[toolsntat]

If it is any help I was informed after the event that it had a patent pending stamp on it :idea:

Andy

 

[GLFaria]

You might do with something like this (no attachment, though):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4FIur6_Q68
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQVw82ofqqs

 

[bugbear]

To be clear; I have no use for the tool, and no small pieces of wood that need thickening. I am specifically trying to find a particular old product.

BugBear

 

[Scouse]

and no small pieces of wood that need thickening

If you find a plane that thickens wood, I suggest you might be in the money...