hi i'm old sneelock. welcome to another episode of old sneelock's workshop. i'm going to show you my latest acquisition from the antique shopand three older acquisitions. kind of give you a little bit of history on them. oneof these things is not like the other it's an old sesame street game. we can play a variation on it here. over the years
antique woodworking tools prices, and it has been years that i've beencollecting these things and really this amounts to a collection because three ofthem serve no useful purpose. i started out wanting to have a stanleynumber 78. this was my first attempt at getting one.
it had the clamp but it didn't have thefence. it had the clamp but it didn't have the fence and all it had was one beading tool. the 78 is not for beading. somebody was able to use itbecause it will hold a beading tool but it didn't work well. i found it neglectedand rusty sitting on a shelf in an antique shop and decided it was betteroff at my place cleaned up and painted. and so it became cleaned up and paintedand i thought well i'll find a way to make a blade. went through the process of making a blade. decided that maybe it's going to be more
work than what i wanted to do. then ifound this one. and i said well this one's got a blade. it's not the right blade. it's a blade and it's an older unit thisis a made in usa but it's not a number 78. it's a knock off. it has this extra little pusher here sothat you can use a little bit more efficiently. you can put your thumb onthat push on it and do a little better job and it came with a blade. the bladeis pretty thin it's kind of flexible and it chatterslike the dickens.
it got set aside and i thought well maybesomeday. then i came across this one and it had the fence. well not really. the fence actually camewith this one. it had a rod and fence. it all fit together but it had thatcrappy blade in it. so i took the fence and the rod. put them together on this plane, and then i had an actualstanley 78. except it didn't have the depth stop. butmost people said that they didn't use
the depth stop least that's what i toldmyself. yesterday i went down to galesburg andsitting on the shelf with a nice tag above it that said, twenty percent off, wasa actual stanley number 78 it's a newer one i'm pretty sure it'snot from the nineteen twenties. probably nineteen sixties or so. but it has allthe little bells and whistles. this is a little screw depth stop, fence, bar, clamp, both screws and theproper blade and an adjustable body. so now i have a number 78 real deal actual thing. needs to have the blade sharpened because everything does.
this is a millers falls. it has it stamped onthe body and on the blade it has a craftsman fence on it becausethis is a craftsman plane. at least going by the name on the blade it sayscraftsman. somebody at one point decided that theywanted to have a better hand hold and i can see how if you were holding on tothat kind of handle with your fingers that would get painful. so they filled this side with some kind ofbody putty or wood putty or something. this one of course is a no name becauseit has no name and no blade and no way of knowing anything about it other thanit's a number 78 style because it has
the bull nose on the front of it. that proves it's not a weather strippingplane i don't know what this screw hole isfor. it's got two of them. might be somebody decided to put a fence on it. who knows? so that's the story of myquest for a stanley 78 i've got one it's full and complete. gotall the pieces and parts and everything seems to work. so three of the four can go. i think i'lllist them on ebay because you guys might actually have a use for them out there
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