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272491 "yorkshireman@y..." <yorkshireman@y...> 2021‑01‑09 Re: Weird marking on Mathieson planes (and other dado plane question)
G’day, Christian, 

I have a couple of similarly marked planes.  Odd numbers in odd places.  I have
always assumed that either

1) the man making them marked them as being his work,
or
2) the school / workshop using them marked the parts - wedge and body, to ensure
that they stayed together.

I don’t think I have come across marked blades, though I confess, ashamadly,
that I haven’t picked up a wooden plane for far too many months.

In mitigation though - I needed to run some moulding for new drawer pulls at the
weekend just gone, and I used that doyen of all purpose tools, the Record 405
(stanley 45, Paddy, the maid of all mouldings work)  Whilst I could have used a
moulder, for they look down on me from their parade line high on the wall, A
fence was the better option, and I remembered a parcel of ‘additional cutters’ I
had come across in a drawer, so out came a box of 405, found the appropriate
shape in the extras, vowed to remake the cutters container, and ran some
moulding.  A delightful experience.  SWMBO is very happy with the results.  Eat
your pith out, Mr Ikea.


Richard Wilson
Where the sun is rising at any moment from the depths of the North Sea

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