Vintage Pike and Dean Smoothing Plane V.1

[Herb Stoops]

Here is a vintage smoothing plane that is a little different.
Herb

[Stick486]

looks to be that the iron angle can be changed..
now that's different...

[smitty10101]

https://www.jimbodetools.com/products/r ... sior-97635

[Cherryville Chuck]

That is unusual.

[Stick486]

https://www.jimbodetools.com/products/r ... sior-97635

WOW!!!!

[Nickp]

^ DITTO...!

[Herb Stoops]

Worth every cent, I am sure.
HErb

[Cherryville Chuck]

At the other end of the scale from a plane worth $5500, or at least one that someone hopes to get that much for, is one I purchased recently for $7.50. I actually bought two for $15. So I don't think I over paid. What's odd about this one is that it is a wooden plane with a metal chip breaker just like a metal plane would have. I have never seen or heard of one like that before. I first thought that someone had pieced together parts to make it but the wooden body, the chip breaker, and the blade all have the Alexe Mathieson and Sons logo on them. The wooden wedge is notched where it fits over the screw that holds the chip breaker to the blade as is the body. The blade is quite heavy and tapers from thin at the end to heavy at the tip like wooden plane irons are supposed to be made. This is no collectors item as the body is cracked, side split and repaired, and the end of the blade beat up from being adjusted but it is turning out to be the most aggressively cutting plane I own. A diamond in the rough of sorts. I'm just wondering if anyone has ever seen other wooden planes with a chip breaker like this one?

[Herb Stoops]

I knew a guy one time who took me down to his basement to show me his plane collection. A whole wall and bench along the wall was covered with hand planes.He would pick one up and say what a beauty this one is and I paid how many thousands of dollars for it.
I asked him what he made, and he said indigently, I don't do woodworking. So I asked him why he collected planes? He answered because he had a thing about beautiful tools.
I guess it is like me and guns, but I don't pay thousands for them, and I take them out to the range and blaze away.

Herb

[Cherryville Chuck]

I'd rather pick one up that might be a little rough around the edges or maybe even really rough and take it and give it a little TLC and get it to cut again.Taking one that has been abused and beat up like that one and making it perform as well as it is doing gives me far more pleasure than one without a blemish that never makes a shaving again. I've picked a few up like it over the last year and a few have turned out to work beautifully with some tuning and a good sharpen and hone job.

[Stick486]

this deserves another look...