> On Mar 8, 2018, at 9:54 PM, Ed Minch  wrote:
> 
> I sent this to Tom Conroy and he suggested that everyone might appreciate it:
> 
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruby1638/38890586120/in/dateposted-public/

Ed Minch sent these nice pics of the bedding of the Stanley block planes’s. I
had in a later post mentioned my selection of the MF 56 to retain as a low angle
adj. mouth vintage block plane. got back home today from my sojourn in
California and took a pic of said plane to show its nice wide bed. To wit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/77280442@N.../26862902068/in/dateposted-
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The main rectangle is 3/4 inch wide and there is that tail that extends all the
way to the cross rib.

If you click the right arrow the next five pics are my Type 2 Stanley #18
knuckle cap, circa 1890. The third pic shows the same nice wide bedding as the
MF. Since that pic I have gone ahead and tuned the plane and lightly filed the
bed. It cleaned up very quickly as it was well machined, back before computers
took over the process.

Bill