At 07:19 PM 5/27/2006 -0400, Anthony Seo 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

>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

I have a Rev-O-Noc jack plane with a tapered iron like yours.  I have been 
told that Rev-O-Noc is Conover spelled backwards, and it was a hardware and 
tool outfit from the early part of the 20th Century, and the plane was 
probably made by Ohio Tools.  It's a nice plane, easily the equal of a 
Stanley/Bailey.

Dave C

(Still looking for feedback on a #46 dado plane)

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