Old Planes

[bugbear]

Good collection of planes. I wouldn't be too enthusiastic with cleaning these as they have a nice patina. You could try cleaning off some of the ingrained dirt with turpentine and some 0000 grade wire wool...but do it gently. After that a good application of wax (again with some 0000 grade wire wool) and then buffed off with a soft duster ought to see them looking better, not that they look awful now - Rob

I find that doing both at the same time, using quite runny traditional furniture polish, works a treat.

Traditional furniture polish is a simple mixture of turpentine and beeswax.

Some "fancy" recipes might add carnuba wax, but it's not needed for cleaning planes.

BugBear

 

[charlieab11]

cheers for the advice.

i will have a long think about doing anything with them. i would realy like to use the brass bottomed plane.

Cheers to everyone whos replyed to my questions

 

[bugbear]

I just acquired a Bennet B Burley 17" long, close handled panel plane, with only a 2 1/8" wide blade.

Very neat little thing. Googling lead to this thread, and here:

http://www.planemakers-database.com/279/burley-heys/

photos to follow.

EDIT; photos taken

I don't know if the decorative punching was the owner or the maker.

BugBear

 

[bugbear]

Planemaker's DB has dates 1912 – 1915

http://www.planemakers-database.com/279/burley-heys/

But this directory:

http://www.mocavo.co.uk/The-Post-Office ... 163982/163

Lists them working much later, in 1931

Burley, Bennet B., manufacturer of planes and
edge tools, importer of American and Con-
tinental tools and hardware, 63 Carlton place C.5.

BugBear