Hello gregarious galoots! - I have only been lurking for a short while
and it already feels like home with everyone joking, bickering, sharing
secrets, .etc.. (I have 4 sisters, 1 brother)

My Name is Aaron Ionta (eye-on-ta). I live with my wife Jennifer, and
our cat Huckleberry in Minneapolis, MN otherwise called the great Tool
Tundra (stole that one from Bruce Vansloun ?Sp.?)

I work for a systems integration company, and I do Software Telephone
support by day. I have been interested in woodworking and tools
since I was a child especially planes. 

I got interested in visiting the porch by listening in at theoak
and decided that if I was ever going to get my 3 planes Scary Sharp(TM)
that I had better get directions to the porch. Well I guess I'm on the
bottom step not trying to slip on my own drool

I'm glad to be here in the company of y'all (lived in Austin, TX 10
years)

p.s. Thanks for all of the info on Electrolysis

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OK! here are the goods

1 Baily #4 that I need to date yet
1 Record Technical Plane - it is approx the  size of a number 5 and has
  extra webbing and higher sides (supposed to be perpedicular), and
the   sides each have 1 threaded hole in them for handles (I was told)
1 new #5 Stanley ( a gift)

that the goods!

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Aaron R. Ionta
Home Phone 612-925-9849

IntraNet Solutions Inc.
9625 West 76th St. Suite #150
Eden Prairie, Minnesota 55344

aaron.ionta@i...

Support Phone 888-688-8324 - Toll Free
              612-903-2020
Direct Line   612-903-2032

New born galoot Aaron Ionta exposes his chest (toolchest)

 >1 Baily #4 that I need to date yet
 >1 Record Technical Plane -
 >1 new #5 Stanley ( a gift)

 Hey,  this here galoot has a *technical* plane - Now you'll have to get a
 shooting board and donkeys ear made....

 Welcome to the porch

 Richard Wilson
 (How's that extension going? No, *stop* digging out a basement workshop
 and jest keep laying the decking.)
 :-)

Richard Wilson wrote:
 
~   New born galoot Aaron Ionta exposes his chest (toolchest)

~   >1 Record Technical Plane -
  
~   Hey,  this here galoot has a *technical* plane - Now you'll have to get a
~   shooting board and donkeys ear made....

This is a plane originally intended for school use. It is 13" long,
with a reinforced sole and an extended wing with its crest parallel to
the sole that seems to look a bit like those bedrock thingies that
some people go on about. 8-). The handle screws into a tapped hole
going into the frog support bosses. I don't think it was a commercial
success.

But has Aaron's got a handle? Record's Planecraft book shows one. It's
shape is misleading since one would get the idea that for use on a
shooting board, one just grabbed the entire handle and tried to use it
that way. I think this must have been the original intention of the
genius (sarky, 8-)) who thought this up, but wiser counsel might have
eventually gained because in the sixth impression, 1954, page 39, they
show it used by a schoolboy with the thumb hooked round the base of
the handle, the index finger on the wing and the remaining fingers
covering the blade.

This makes sense, since to use a plane on a shooting board some nifty
wrist action is needed to obtain the necessary scooping action that I
doubt could be effectively applied from a grip on a small diameter
round handle, rather like a file handle.

Incidentally, in this position it is rather easy to jam the top of the
thumb rather vigorously against the stop. How do I know? Well I don't
have a handle but managed to fit a salvaged front knob instead (the
thread is a wierd specification). That's how I found out!

As a matter of interest, has anybody got an earlier version of
Planecraft (first published 1934) with perhaps a different
illustration? It would be interesting to know why the hand was thus
shaped.

-- 
Jeff Gorman - West Yorkshire
jeff@m...