why so expensive ? and what for

[big soft moose]

i was browsing G&M tools (like you do when you are supposed to be working from home) looking at the old planes and i found this weird looking thing

http://www.gandmtools.co.uk/cat_leaf.php?id=7053

so two questions

a) given that its only made by stanley what makes it so expensive

and

b) what does it do that a basic block plane doesnt ?

 

[Tom K]

https://www.finetoolj.com/ftj.php/store/view/32

Its one of them and its rare :lol:

 

[Chris Knight]

A block plane makes a rotten mitre plane. Also G&M tools is always expensive - outrageously so in my opinion.

 

[head clansman]

hi


er um , excuse me .

big soft moose wrote

given that its only made by stanley

nothing wrong with stanley thank you :lol: I bought tools from him in the past he sells a lot of gear, don't think he really want to sell it hence the price but if you twist his arm that s what it will go for .hc

 

[Smudger]

It's a block plane inasmuch as its used to plane end grain. It's a very desirable tool, used with a shooting board for absolute accuracy. A~lso known as a mitre plane.

See Blood & Gore : http://www.supertool.com/StanleyBG/stan2.htm

If I was you, I'd buy it. How much are they asking?

 

[wizer]

It's expensive because it's rare. But £800 seems a little OTT.

I had the LN No9 and it's a lovely plane. Not sure it's 'worth' it's price tag tho. If I was to buy another, I think I'd rather have a Philly skew mitre tbh.

 

[Paul Chapman]

Depends whether you are a collector or a user. If you're a user then one of these would be a far better buy

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[Smudger]

Paul, that's tool porn...

 

[Paul Chapman]

:lol:

One of the best planes I've ever bought.

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[wizer]

Pete, I take it you know what this is used for?

It's for shooting end grain with a shooting board to make it square and true and to trim it to the exact length desired. You can also do mitres with a shooting board which is (supposedly) the ultimate way to get a dead accurate mitre.

 

[woodbloke]

:lol:

One of the best planes I've ever bought.

Cheers :wink:

Paul

Agreed :wink: - Rob

 

[Alf]

S'got the hotdog - the old Stanley, I mean. Dim and distant memory believes that racks the price up a bit. The Stanley Little Big Book (2006) has an average #9 with hotdog at $1200 fwiw.

Cheers, Alf

Who had to stop and think what the model number was before being able to look it up. Oh, the shame. #-o

 

[heimlaga]

Alf
Most of us have a disfunctional memory like that by birth I am slowly adopting to mine.....

Welcome back to the forum by the way

 

[Ironballs]

Alf - I'm beginning to doubt all the hype on here about you :wink:

Of course I'm not

Agree that that is a collector price only, either go for the LN equivalent as Paul says or do what I did and acquire a Philly skew mitre

 

[big soft moose]

Pete, I take it you know what this is used for?

It's for shooting end grain with a shooting board to make it square and true and to trim it to the exact length desired. You can also do mitres with a shooting board which is (supposedly) the ultimate way to get a dead accurate mitre.

tom - as you rightly surmise i know nowt about planes - hence the idle browsing of second hand sites - I wasnt actually considering this one i just wondered what it did and why it was so much, i dont even have a shooting board ! ( I cut my mitres on the bandsaw or cms )

my plane collection thus far is a stanley no.4 i bought second hand from benchwayze, and a couple of block planes (and a couple of spoke shaves) I got from olly (plus still unassembled bits i inherited from grandad). most of my smoothing work is done with a power planer, belt sander and ros.

 

[yetloh]

:lol:

One of the best planes I've ever bought.

I agree (LN mitre plane), I use it a lot and it's a joy and I'm not an LN fan. Hard to think of a way in which it could be improved.

Jim

 

[Vann]

***REPORT TO MODERATOR :shock:

I cut my mitres on the bandsaw or cms .

most of my smoothing work is done with a power planer, belt sander and ros.

Is he allowed to use these #%#* words on a hand tools forum? :lol: :lol:

Cheers, Vann