GG, I am the proud new owner of an "Infill" plane... Was told it's
Scotch I mean Scott-ish...'zat right Scott, Anyway I'm hoping there is
someone who can tell me a little more...Google (tm) ain't gettin' me
there, my search ability I'm sure! I would like to see some pictures of
originals as I feel the stuffin has been replaced and the blade is a
Sandusky, which I doubt the originality.

http://galootcentral.com/index.php?option=com_copperminevis&Itemid=2&pl-
ace=displayimage&album=97&posor http://tinyurl.com/87es793

and

http://galootcentral.com/index.php?option=com_copperminevis&Itemid=2&pl-
ace=displayimage&album=97&posor http://tinyurl.com/79s5sw7

and

http://galootcentral.com/index.php?option=com_copperminevis&Itemid=2&pl-
ace=displayimage&album=97&posor http://tinyurl.com/lm8ylk

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Roy Griggs roygriggs@v...
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Hey Roy!!
Way to go!
  http://tinyurl.com/79s5sw7
No idea who made it, nobody ever will I suspect.

  But the question of when is pretty certain.
Its early, real early for an infill.
Only the first ones used wedges.

http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/lilsweet.jpg
  yours Scott

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    Box 409 Happy Camp, Ca  96039
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On 3/3/2012 11:07 AM, roygriggs@v... wrote:
> GG, I am the proud new owner of an "Infill" plane... Was told it's
> Scotch I mean Scott-ish...'zat right Scott, Anyway I'm hoping there is
> someone who can tell me a little more...Google (tm) ain't gettin' me
> there, my search ability I'm sure! I would like to see some pictures
> of originals as I feel the stuffin has been replaced and the blade is
> a Sandusky, which I doubt the originality.
>
> http://galootcentral.com/index.php?option=com_copperminevis&Itemid=2&-
> place=displayimage&album=97&pos> or http://tinyurl.com/87es793
>
> and
>
> http://galootcentral.com/index.php?option=com_copperminevis&Itemid=2&-
> place=displayimage&album=97&pos> or http://tinyurl.com/79s5sw7
>
> and
>
> http://galootcentral.com/index.php?option=com_copperminevis&Itemid=2&-
> place=displayimage&album=97&pos> or http://tinyurl.com/lm8ylk
>
>
Difficult to say more without getting close up and personal, but I'd
hazard a guess the front bun and back were not made by the same person -
front bun seems nicely shaped, ergonomic and all. The back piece
doesn't: it would be uncomfortable for pushing. FWIW Don
--
1. Nothing ever works. 2. When it works, it's waiting not to work. -
   Mark Warhol
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Hi Scott---
  Don't you mean only the *best* ones used wedges?
         gam---FOYBHolland Plane users---

If you were Einstein's father, we wouldn't have the bomb." Peggy Hill

--- On Sat, 3/3/12, scott grandstaff <scottg@s...> wrote:

> Hey Roy!!
> Way to go!
>  http://tinyurl.com/79s5sw7
> No idea who made it, nobody ever will I suspect.
> 
>  But the question of when is pretty certain.
> Its early, real early for an infill.
> Only the first ones used wedges.
> 
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On 3/3/2012 1:51 PM, scott grandstaff wrote:

>  But the question of when is pretty certain. Its early, real early for
>  an infill. Only the first ones used wedges.

Wot, like dis?

http://galootcentral.com/components/cpgalbums/userpics/10074/infill_17.JPG

Someone (not me!) has sanded the wood nearly to death on this poor thing.
But fortunately they left the body alone.  A thicker iron and a new wedge and
this one will be pushing up shavings.  Another unidentifiable infill...

-- 
Darrell LaRue
Oakville ON
Wood Hoarder, Blade Sharpener, and Occasional Tool User

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GG,
 Just a couple of notes; it was cheap, the iron is tapered. It has "No" mouth
opening. I polished the rust off the back of the blade on 600 grit, Gave the
edge a quick hone on 250 then 600 just to get a clean edge. Put it back together
and it cuts shavings that pass thru it's non-equisitant mouth, on red oak
anyway. The butt isn't comfortable in use, so I'm more convinced it's not
original. Both fills are crudely fitted (but then I don't know I'd do much
better) so they were probably done by a user...

 

Roy Griggs
roygriggs@v...

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Photo's are not as good as handling the real thing, but I'll offer in a 
suggestion that it was user made from a casting (there was a period when 
castings were freely available for craftsmen to stuff as they wished.  I 
say this because it appears that the stuffing is not fitted to the outer 
face of the casting - much simpler of course, and if you needed a fine 
plane to bring in the daily bread, you may feel that this refinement is 
a delay too far.
Your observation on the working quality suggests that there's nothing 
wrong with the more important aspects of it.
As for wedges, of course, they are achievable by a woodworker (a skilled 
one if he needed this plane) Whereas the manufacture of a lever cap may 
not have been. How well fitted are the stuffing retaining screws?

As for the design of the heel - well, its down to feel, but I have seen 
a few with this shape.  With the web of the thumb applied to it it isn't 
necessarily uncomfortable, and on difficult grain you want to apply 
considerable downforce, which a complicated tote could interfere with.

The devil is on the detail of those, I owned, for a period, a 
delightfully comfortable smoother of the same general pattern, and was 
amazed at how well it worked.  I wouldn't have wanted to spend all day 
with it, but set for the awkward grain of my flamburtle showpiece itens, 
I could see it being well used.  Another, without the softening of the 
arrises, would be uncomfortable.  I keep a Calvert Stevens handy, set up 
in just such a way, as I was brought up with totes and find I get on 
best with them.

Try rummaging around Andy Stevens site at Toolbazaar - he often has such 
scottish type smoothers.  May have some Scotch under the counter too for 
all I know.

Richard Wilson
Yorkshireman Galoot
in Northumberland

On 03/03/2012 18:07, roygriggs@v... wrote:
> GG,
>   I am the proud new owner of an "Infill" plane...
>   Was told it's Scotch I mean Scott-ish...'zat right Scott,
>   Anyway I'm hoping there is someone who can tell me a little more...Google
(tm) ain't gettin' me there, my search ability I'm sure! I would like to see
some pictures of originals as I feel the stuffin has been replaced and the blade
is a Sandusky, which I doubt the originality.
>

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