Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 29 no. 2, June 1976 by Raymond M. Smith This is a plane that I recently acquired (Figure 1). It is a beautiful iron-soled 22″ fore plane, with beechwood handle, knob and wedge. The sole is constructed with diagonally crisscrossed ribs (Figure 2). The top of the body is embossed …
by Paul Van Pernis After a series of ever more contentious disputes, Leonard Bailey left The Stanley Rule & Level Company in 1874 to strike out on his own in the tool-making business. Within weeks, he set up shop in Hartford, Connecticut, as Leonard Bailey & Co. and started to produce his Victor line of …
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Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 40 no. 1, March 1987 by David B. Crowe On an international basis, the wooden shoe is typically regarded as a Dutch object. This understanding may be due, perhaps, to the persistent and widespread use of the wooden shoe in the Netherlands into contemporary times. It is hardly an accurate …
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 30 no. 1, March 1977 by Ivan C. Risley Several tool collections contain a small “plane-like” item that seems only to confuse the owner as to its purpose. This tool always includes a V-shaped blade and in most cases a handle on one end. The one the author has was …