Old wooden plane ?

[bigjoe]

Evening all,
Ive just found a wooden plane that my grandad gave me years ago,and it somehow ended up in my dads possesion so it ended up covered in paint and all manner of gunk!

I have'nt managed to coax the camera into life yet but i will post some pics asap,im hoping that someone might be able to give me some more information about it, its an oblong shape approx 22" long by approx 4" square and seems to be a reddish hardwood with chamfered top edges and it also has the word master stamped into the front in 3/8" high letters, ive also got the blade which has a steel plate with a rolled front edge attached to it.
I know its very difficult without a picture but im thinking it may be a jointer?

It may have been my great grandads who i believe was a thames shipwright around the end of the 19th century/early twentieth century.

My apologies for a pictureless posting.

Joe

p.s. it looks like a larger version of phil edwards traditional jack plane.

 

[bugbear]

Sounds like a "fore plane"; wooden jointers were even longer, over 28".

IIRC Master was brand name for Salmen (sp?), although I'm fairly sure they used their own blades, which would make the Ward blade a replacement.

Confirmed - I saw one at a car boot on Sunday, and I've googled this:

http://www.powergrip.co.uk/reconditione ... 0plane.htm

14" long beech plane by Salmen with 2" wide iron marked Pharaoh warranted Sheffield. The front is stamped Master. A1 condition good user tool

BugBear

 

[bigjoe]

Hi Bugbear,
I'll try and post some pictures up today,i still need to give the blade a good clean up as it has some surface rust on it and im sure there should be a wooden wedge or similar which is missing from it.

Joe