Old wood plane.

[Wayne M.]

I took wood shop when I was in the seventh grade, back when the people who taught the young valued teaching trades.
I took a liking to working with wood, and I became fond of the wood plane. Ever since then I hadn't used one and I always wanted one, but I remember pricing a nice one like I used, and they were out of sight!
Fast forward to just recently when I came across one in a junk pile, rusted and left for dead. So sad. So I grabbed it and tore it down. I soaked all the metal parts and massaged it best I could on my breaks and lunches.
Fast forward to this morning when I was able to get it together and try it. Well, it managed to put an awful nice side on a piece of chock wood, and made nice shavings from a not so sharp blade. I'm surprised I remembered how to set it up!
Now im trying to figure out what I have here. It's NOT a Stanley. There's nothing cast in anywhere and a diamond with "PARPLUS" in it is at the top of the blade. This is not a piece of junk, and the wood handles seem to be cherry. I'm attaching 2 pictures. Any ideas out there?

 

[seafish]

They seem to be a mass produced planes with decent though not excellent quality.
Smaller ones on amazon sell for as little as $20...

in other words, good for woodworking though not much price value to them.

http://www.timetestedtools.net/2017/01/04/who-made-the-pressed-steel-frog-bench-planes/

http://forums.finewoodworking.com/fine-woodworking-knots/hand-tools/old-hand-plane-0

And finally a discussion about the qualities--

http://swingley.org/ot/get/92454/thread/

 

[TFucili]

Good find, Wayne! Every now and again, I will purposely do a project the old fashioned way, like mortising hinges, without power tools, etc. just to refresh myself, and preserve skills(using the term loosely)that are disappearing. I consider myself very lucky to have learned many things from skilled old timers.

 

[SnoKing]

I thought a "wood" plane looked like the one on the left and the forth one over?

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[BIGNASTY]

Most old planes & tools in general have been so abused that their workable and thats about it. If your thinking about getting a few to seriously!! work with take a look at these. Of them IMO you'll need 4 to get started & then some specialty planes, Smoothing, Jack, Jointer & block plane. When I have time on my travels around Indiana and the surrounding states I stop at Amish furniture building & woodworking shops. The Amish are known to use no power tools or new tools for that matter ONE PLACE that I've noticed that isn't ALWAYS true is in their choice of planes.





http://www.leevalley.com/us/Wood/page.aspx?cat=1&p=41182

 

[BIGNASTY]

I thought a "wood" plane looked like the one on the left and the forth one over?

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I believe those 2 are called "inset planes"

 

[p-Bar]

As a custom cabinetmaker foe 42 years never had a chance to use hand planes other than small block planes. The porter cable unit is a nice electric block plane , I own one and found one for my brother who builds woody wagons and uses it to shape the rear corners.