The Taintor #7 was nickel plated:

http://lumberjocks.com/kiefer
/blog/29711 <http://lumbe
rjocks.com/kiefer/blog/29711>

I found one and have a friend who said “hey that’s the best one ever made” so I
gave it to him.  Looked like it was stamped steel rather than cast

Ed Minch