Lancashire Pattern Tools.

[rxh]

A Robert Kelly tool. This humble wallpaper scraper nevertheless has a forged bolster and exotic hardwood handle.

 

[Cheshirechappie]

That's an unusually clear, even mark!

 

[rxh]

Does it count if the maker was born in Lancashire but doesn't live there now?

 

[bridger]

Does it count if the maker was born in Lancashire but doesn't live there now?

is this your build? I'm interested in making one, sort of, and I'd like pictures from as many angles as possible.

also, I'd like to see some video of it in use.

actually, at this point I'm figuring I'll use angle iron for the body, mating it with a frog, blade, chipbreaker and lever cap from a bailey pattern plane, milled down to as low an angle as I think I can get away with and brazed on. I know that the chipbreaker and bevel down iron are departures from lancashire pattern, but I *am* in arizona....

 

[bridger]

Does it count if the maker was born in Lancashire but doesn't live there now?

is this your build? I'm interested in making one, sort of, and I'd like pictures from as many angles as possible.

also, I'd like to see some video of it in use.

actually, at this point I'm figuring I'll use angle iron for the body, mating it with a frog, blade, chipbreaker and lever cap from a bailey pattern plane, milled down to as low an angle as I think I can get away with and brazed on. I know that the chipbreaker and bevel down iron are departures from lancashire pattern, but I *am* in arizona....

just gathered the parts together, and the angle I have is pretty small, or the mechanism of the bailey frog is too big.

 

[Cheshirechappie]

Does it count if the maker was born in Lancashire but doesn't live there now?

Lancashire pattern, made by a Lancashire lad but not in Lancashire - well, two out of three ain't bad!

That's a nice looking little plane, too. It would be interesting to hear your thoughts about using it when you've had a chance to give it a bit of a workout.

 

[memzey]

I can confirm it looks as impressive in real life as it does in the photo!

 

[rxh]

Belated thanks to all. I got round to making a new iron of 3/16" thick O1 steel to replace the unsatisfactory 1/8" thick soft one. I also opened up the "pocket" in the side to try and reduce the tendency to clogging. It works much better now, particularly on the shoulders and cheeks of big tenons. I tried it for shooting, which worked but tended to wear the shooting board as you might expect. Use for rebating is possible but not as easy as using a rebate plane. I'm trying to thin of other uses ....

 

[workshopted]

This on the Lancashire pattern shoulder plane by Jane Rees "The Lancashire shoulder plane patented by George Edwin Bryant, patternmaker, and Edward James Witcombe, plane maker, of Bristol, in 1902 ...to improve the performance of shoulder planes. Why they are called Lancashire shoulder planes has not been established. There are at least two planes known, marked Bryant and Co. Bristol".....If I remember correctly, Jane's comment was on a post in TATHS.

I bought my example of this plane (missing its handle) for £11.

 

[Cheshirechappie]

First post, I see, Workshopted - welcome to the forum!

That's a really useful little snippet of information, and from as impeccable a source as they come. Lancashire pattern planes invented in Bristol, eh? That's a bit of a turn-up, but does explain the complete lack of references in Lancashire.

No doubt AndyT will be along shortly for a gentle gloat, though! :lol:

 

[workshopted]

First post, I see, Workshopted - welcome to the forum!

Many thanks for the welcome, my friend.