Don, 

I have a ton of Stanley bench planes that take 2" irons. Hence I have
no difficulty finding a plane for one of said irons. Same thing with
Vaughan and Bushnell . . .

I actually believe that your difficulty in matching your Steiner &
Sohne skewed iron is that you don't have enough planes for that
particular iron . . . same thing for the Henry Boker iron. 

You should go out immediately and buy more planes, so that you have no
trouble matching those irons. 

Gary Katsanis
Albion New York, USA
(who on reflection is able to understand why I have so many planes)

	-----------------------------------------From: "Don Schwartz" 
To: "old tools list"
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Sent: Saturday June 29 2024 7:09:47PM
Subject: [oldtools] is this a sign?

 Today I came across a couple of plane irons for which I have no idea
as
 to their origin, and can't find plane bodies to fit them. One is a
 Steiner & Sohne skewed and tapered iron 55mm wide, the other a 1-9/16
 Henry Boker iron which looks like it might have come from a wedged
block
 plane. So the question - apart from where did they come from? and
where
 do they go? - is whether this is a sign I have too many tools in the
 cave? Not exactly too many tools, which makes no sense, but too many
 tools for my aging brain to keep track of, even with the help of
tailed
 remembering and calculating and doing-all-manner-of-things machines,
of
 which I may well have too many. Please advise.

 Don

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