Peter, the first of the two planes you write about seems to have a lower blade angle than a smoothing plane. If so, it may well be a miter plane. These were made in two versions, one like a slimmer smoothing plane, the other rectangular.
I would occasionally need woodworking tools in the course of my regular work, usually for hanging a gate or planing a door to fit, but also spoon carving tools for when someone made me wait. When I cleaned out my father's shop I rounded up existing tools or dead files to make what I might want. The resulting collection looked like it would fit in a box about the size of the big "American Heritage" dictionary in the living room. After making the box and fitting everything into its own space, I painted it red and wrote "American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language" in yellow on the front. It rides behind the seat of the truck (with a brace, ax and handsaw in the back) and has served me well, sometimes just as a reminder. Enjoy the chair class!
I don't have any of my father's tools,, but I have the workbench he made in NJ about 1954 from three iron machinery trestles and two thick tulip poplar floorboards he took out of the attic of our 18C Dutch house in Pluckemin NJ. It traveled with us all around the country. until I finally went and got it from down some forsaken country road in Illinois where it had been stashed in a leanto shed of somebody's barn.
Peter, the first of the two planes you write about seems to have a lower blade angle than a smoothing plane. If so, it may well be a miter plane. These were made in two versions, one like a slimmer smoothing plane, the other rectangular.
Thank you, Michael.
I would occasionally need woodworking tools in the course of my regular work, usually for hanging a gate or planing a door to fit, but also spoon carving tools for when someone made me wait. When I cleaned out my father's shop I rounded up existing tools or dead files to make what I might want. The resulting collection looked like it would fit in a box about the size of the big "American Heritage" dictionary in the living room. After making the box and fitting everything into its own space, I painted it red and wrote "American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language" in yellow on the front. It rides behind the seat of the truck (with a brace, ax and handsaw in the back) and has served me well, sometimes just as a reminder. Enjoy the chair class!
I don't have any of my father's tools,, but I have the workbench he made in NJ about 1954 from three iron machinery trestles and two thick tulip poplar floorboards he took out of the attic of our 18C Dutch house in Pluckemin NJ. It traveled with us all around the country. until I finally went and got it from down some forsaken country road in Illinois where it had been stashed in a leanto shed of somebody's barn.
and the answer is?
Well, I don’t know how it was for old man Wilkinson - for me, well, that’s personal.
oh I see--