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Not being so rude as to call someone out for having tools he does not
recognize, recall getting, or knowing where they go (Hi Pot, I'm  Kettle),
I am far more inclined to wonder where they go. Since I have not seen pix
or a description of  the geometry, let's go off in the weeds.

On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 4:09 PM Don Schwartz  wrote:

>
> 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


This could have come from a skewed rabbet type plane, masquerading as a
badger plane.
https://kirkhmb.smugmug.com/Woodworking/Woodworking-Tools/i-hmZvJt7

 At 55mm wide, it would be wider than my widest wooden rabbet at 2".  (Note
subtle Alameda Flea reference here?)
https://kirkhmb.smugmug.com/Woodworking/Woodworking-Tools/i-GkLQMhX

Or it could have come from something like my wooden shooting board plane,
seen here.  At 55mm,it's only a bit smaller than mine.  You could easily
build a plane around that blade. (I'm so generous with other people's time)
https://kirkhmb.smugmug.com/Woodworking/Woodworking-Tools/i-p8nfrXr

And a bit off in right field, here is a Leon Robbins smoother with a big
fat skew blade, that I found separate laying on a table (again at Alameda)
and I was going to grab it, when I saw the plane a foot away, with no blade
and no wedge.  Guy let it go cheap.  Both of these came from Alameda, 2017
& 2023. Not subtle this time.
https://kirkhmb.smugmug.com/Woodworking/Tools/Leon-Robbins-Planes/i-nJHLc5z

, the other a 1-9/16 Henry Boker iron which looks like it might have come
> from a wedged block
> plane.

Again, single or double iron not withstanding, at 1-1/2" +, it fits in the
small end of my bench planes, like this horned smoother with only  a 1-1/8"
wide blade (Alameda again)
https://kirkhmb.smugmug.com/Woodworking/Woodworking-Tools/i-fqcLB8V

The horned scrub here has a 1-1/4" blade (same pic as above, from a Flea in
Petersplatz Basel
https://kirkhmb.smugmug.com/Woodworking/Woodworking-Tools/i-p8nfrXr

Somewhere I have a 7/8" wide compass coffin plane, then others starting at
1 7/8 inch blades, so would not surprise me if there were sizes in between,
no pics handy, since I bought it off GAry Roberts



> So the question - apart from where did  they come from? and where do they
> go?

See above, hope these clues give you some places to look at in your
existing inventory, or planes to go buy in the future, hoping the blades
fit.

- is whether this is a sign I have too many tools in the cave?

Horrors no

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.
>
> I use my picture index, linked above, and a google sheet with many tabs,
that I can access from home, work and my phone, as a way to help keep
track.  And the g sheet has a tab for spare blades, cuz I grab them
whenever I see strays about

Kettle, in Half Moon Bay, CA, who is almost done getting my Record 04 1/2
into fine working shape, the blade and chip breaker still need a bit of
rust removal, the blade is almost sharp.


-- 
Kirk Eppler in Half Moon Bay, CA