Old Edge Shaping Block Planes

[Neomorph]

As I'm a noob I don't know what the proper name for these planes are but when my parents passed away last year we found a set of these in my father's shed. I think they used to belong to my grandfather but may be older than that. I guess they do what we now use a router for these days and create the shaped edges on cabinets etc. They are wooden bodied and if I remember rightly from my childhood actually used a wooden wedge to set the contoured blade. No adjusting rings etc.

Now before anyone get's the wrong idea, I'm not looking to sell them. What I really want to know is is whether they are actually worth anything and whether to keep them in the house or not (and please... nobody tell me to keep them in an unlocked shed and then asking my address :wink: ).

They are currently at my sisters as my brother-in-law was cleaning them up as they were quite neglected and stuck at the back of a cupboard in a cobweb filled shed for several years.

I'm going down there in a few weeks and I'll try to get some decent photos of them and then post them here to give you more of an idea.

 

[Chris Knight]

John,
They sound like moulding planes. These are pretty common and are not usually worth much unless they are of the more complex sort with multiple cutters for a very wide cut. Generally they can be had for £5-10 each

Matched sets of certain kinds can cost a lot more but you will need to post a picture for folk to advise further.

 

[Alf]

as my brother-in-law was cleaning them up

Depending on exactly how your BIL is cleaning them up, any value they might have had may already be gone...

But you don't want to keep them in the house; you want them in the workshop, handy to use.

Cheers, Alf

 

[Neomorph]

as my brother-in-law was cleaning them up

Depending on exactly how your BIL is cleaning them up, any value they might have had may already be gone...

But you don't want to keep them in the house; you want them in the workshop, handy to use.

Cheers, Alf

I think all he was doing is disasembling them and oiling them as they were covered in dust that had clinged to the oil already on them. It doesn't matter about value being low as like I said they aren't being sold but the fact is that they aren't likely to be targetted by thieves as they are so common is something that eases the mind.

I'll have to post some pics but in reply to waterheads comment I think they are a matched set and some have multiple cutters (not sure on that though). I wasn't exactly tracking straight when they were found as I had been sorting out Moms funeral and emptying the house that I was born in. Consequently detail of what happened that last week are sort of in a fog (in fact it's exactly a year ago that this was happening).