GG's


The recent thread about making reproductions of Stanley wood boxes makes me want
to "throw out" the idea of creating a book consisting of plans for reproductions
of the various wooden boxes.  I only have one such box, thus lack the "source
material"


CAD could be used to make the drawings, although CAD drawings tend to be a bit
lifeless unless the draughtsman is a real pro.


Certainly there would be a lot interest in making safe places to store one's
most collectible planes, scrapers, spokeshaves, routers, etc.


John R.

> On Dec 8, 2016, at 12:09 PM, John Ruth  wrote:
> 
> 
> Certainly there would be a lot interest in making safe places to store one's
most collectible planes, scrapers, spokeshaves, routers, etc.

Tools with extra parts need boxes. 

I have posted this before but it seems apropos to do it again w/ this
discussion. When I traded my Stanley router plane for a new Veritas I decided to
move beyond cardboard and built a box, complete w/ carefully peeled label:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/77280442@N.../albums/72157656333193606/wi
th/19853517699/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/77280442@N.../albums/721576563331
93606/with/19853517699/

Bill

To Bill & any other porch denizens who own tools with missing parts:


You have said an absolute mouthful with the comment that "Tools with extra parts
need boxes."


Just think of the thousands and thousands of tools missing some of their
accessories !


Have you ever encountered a complete Stanley 289 (Duplex Rabbet/Rebate and
Fillister Plane, Jeff) which was not safely ensconced in a box?


If everyone who'd ever bought a new tool with loose parts had made a box for it,
we subsequent generations would be in much better shape.


John R.


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From: William Ghio 
Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2016 12:22:07 PM
To: John Ruth
Cc: OldTools List
Subject: Re: [OldTools] Idea for a Book Project: A Set of Plans for Stanley
Woodeb Boxes


> On Dec 8, 2016, at 12:09 PM, John Ruth  wrote:
>
>
> Certainly there would be a lot interest in making safe places to store one's
most collectible planes, scrapers, spokeshaves, routers, etc.

Tools with extra parts need boxes.

I have posted this before but it seems apropos to do it again w/ this
discussion. When I traded my Stanley router plane for a new Veritas I decided to
move beyond cardboard and built a box, complete w/ carefully peeled label:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/77280442@N.../albums/72157656333193606/wi
th/19853517699/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/77280442@N.../albums/721576563331
93606/with/19853517699/

Bill

Yup - I have a Stanley 50 missing the standard lost chip deflector and the
screw for holding narrow blades.  Has anyone made a box for one of these?

Phil

while back I purchased a Stanley 67 spokeshave (the one with the beaded
rosewood handles) at a garbage sale and it has the flat bottom installed.  I
looked in the books and saw what the round bottom looked like and thought -
that’s a lost cause.  About 2 weeks later at a local flea, I found the round
bottom in the bottom of a box - 25¢.  So instead of a box , I used a piece of
string which is another option.

Ed Minch

> I decided to move beyond cardboard and built a box, complete w/ carefully
peeled label:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/77280442@N.../albums/72157656333193606/wi
th/19853517699/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/77280442@N.../albums/721576563331
93606/with/19853517699/


Absolutely gorgeous! 

Mike in Woodland

>I looked in the books and saw what the round bottom looked like and thought -
that's a lost cause.  About 2 weeks later at a local flea, I found the round
bottom in the bottom of a box - 25¢.

Wish I had found the same sort of price, but I had a #66 beader with the
straight fence.  Kept my eye out for the curved fence.  Never found an
orphan curved fence, but one day I found an even earlier (japaned) 66
with a curved fence.  Oh darn!  I have to put up with two #66 beaders! 

Mike in Woodland

GG's:

Though it wasn't what I had in mind, I absolutely love stories about finding
various parts of the same tool in different venues!

My stories are in the archives. The best one involves a seller calling me up TEN
YEARS later to tell me he'd found the missing parts of a Stanley miterbox.

John Ruth
Metuchen NJ

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On Dec 9, 2016, at 12:10 AM, Michael Blair mailto:branson2@s...">mailto:branson2@s...>> wrote:


>I looked in the books and saw what the round bottom looked like and thought -
that's a lost cause.  About 2 weeks later at a local flea, I found the round
bottom in the bottom of a box - 25c.

Wish I had found the same sort of price, but I had a #66 beader with the
straight fence.  Kept my eye out for the curved fence.  Never found an orphan
curved fence, but one day I found an even earlier (japaned) 66 with a curved
fence.  Oh darn!  I have to put up with two #66 beaders!

Mike in Woodland