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>From: Jim Erdman To: ted@i...,
>oldtools@www3.law.cornell.edu Subject: Re: Bio,// Bedrock(?) plane
>Date: Thu, Nov 8, 2001, 4:02 PM
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> Ted, Sounds like maybe an earlier Bedrock plane, see Bob Kaune's pages
> for details of Bedrock types:
> http://www.antique-used-tools.com/brtypes.htm
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He has a comparison of Bedrocks vs the models made by Stanley for
Keen Kutter and Winchester. He also has a note on something he
calls a type 3Z:
TYPE 3Z. c.1900
- All characteristics of TYPE 3., except... €Beds marked with only
slanted single digit numbers:"3", "8", lightly milled space where the
"K" would have been for a Keen Kutter "Bed Rock." Perhaps planes made
for Keen Kutter but later sold by Stanley in the general market. €No
patent dates on the bed.
It appears Stanley had a thing for milling off castings to remove
writing they no longer wanted to be there. Assuming Ted's is not
milled, maybe they got it right for once and made a run of Bedrocks
for a hardware store and removed all the writing from the patterns?
Vaughn and Bushell planes are marked "Dropped Forged" and I think
they may have only been made with square sides.
Regards, Steve
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