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Dating Record Bench Planes
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This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others. MooreToolsPlease Established Dating. Joined 17 Sep Messages Reaction score 0. I dont think there is a site for dating Record planes. But i'm bound to be proven wrong!
Rosewood handle & knob
The only tip I have picked up is one from BugBear. Which is to look for planes with straight edged corners, instead of rounded corners not at dating sharp end. Jake Established Member. Wasn't it the other way around? I just done here quick search, and found this, as said by BugBear "I would recommend buying planes Record 04 and Look for planes where the blades have square not round corners, which is an easy to spot proxy for age, which is and easy to spot proxy for quality.
Oh well, that's that then. Restoration indefinitely postponed a bit longer I suppose it dating what you intend to use the plane for.
Frogs and lateral adjustment levers
Alf Established Member. All iirc and subject to revision: Earlier are darker blue Rosewood handles pre-date stained beech Older frogs look like this. Anyone care to post a modern frog to compare?
The disc at the bottom of the lateral adjust can turn on the older ones. Much later ones don't have a separate disc at all. Earlier Y adjusters were cast in one piece. There are other indicators listed in the notes at the front of the Record Catalogue reprint with dates but so far it's proved to be horribly unreliable. Cheers, Alf. Paul Chapman Established Member. Alf":1w7g3atz said:. Older frogs look like this. Click to expand MooreToolsPlease":1wv4d7au said:. As promised, here are some pictures of two of my Record here. The first picture shows my 04, which I bought inon the left and my 05 Stay-set which Record stopped making in the late s on the right.
DaveL Check this out Member. Mambo, You need to give permission for us to view your picture. I think there maybe gremlins out there tonight, you original link is now working and if I cut and past you new one that works, but it does doesn't inside the image tags. Scrit Established Member.
Joined 17 Sep Messages 3, Reaction score 3. Another dating indicator is the plating on the lever cap. It's only a guess, but I would reckon that mambo's Record 03 the picture of which has just disappeared from my screen :? It has the same sort of frog as my 04 which I bought record in but that came with a split 'Y' lever.
The 'Y' lever on mambo's 3 looks record it is one-piece so I think that would make it pre Does anyone know when they stopped making the T5 Technical Jack plane? The later models of those had the skeletal-type frogs. Cheers :wink: Paul. Paul Chapman":4lt9eafo said:. Alf"umuk9g planes. De ja vu Post reply. Insert quotes…. Similar threads R. Shoulder plane. RichardHants 25 Jul Hand Tools. Replies 1 Views Unusual old tool. Replies 3 Views 1K. Roberto Flintofski 15 Sep For Sale. Replies 9 Views Marples M Hand Planes. Replies 4 Views 1K.
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