At 07:04 PM 5/27/2006, Ken Meltsner wrote:

>I just received a #5-sized plane that I purchased on that auction
>site.  The plane iron was marked "Everkeen" and the plane is as, near
>as I can tell, a pretty close copy of a Stanley #5 -- Everkeen was the
>Pritzlaff Hardware (Milwaukee area) store's house brand and it might
>have been made by Stanley, just as the Keen Kutter planes were.
>
>The one significant different is that it has a truly massive tapered
>iron, which goes from normal thickness at the top to nearly 1/4-inch
>at the bevel.
>
>This doesn't seem to make a lot sense -- a tapered iron in a plane
>with an adjuster?  Wouldn't this tend to wedge in under the lever cap?
>Still, there's no way this is going to chatter....

I'm not familiar with that particular brand or Hardware outfit, do 
you have any working dates?  My thoughts with tapered iron, if it is 
original,  that the plane was made by Ohio Tools.  They were still in 
business until 1920 so depending on the dates that is a possibility

Tony (where it looks like summer has finally arrived)

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