Thankyou. Not so Young sadly! It’s surprising what an education it is being taught to be proficient in hand tools before graduating to machines. I’m fluent in both now how ever the hand tools are what interests me.
Thanks for showing your planes , Liverpool had a good number of Scottish plane makers working out of the city , Mathieson had workshops and warehouses in Liverpool at the companies height , I have a very early Mathieson 3/4'' sash plane its fence in 20mm high , do you have any planes by Currie of glasgow my favorite plane maker , I've never seen a bench plane made by Currie only mounding and specialty planes,
Thanks for that info I did not know that. I do have a Currie or two it might take me a day or two to find them though as I can’t remember which they were when I loaded the shelves there definitely were some.
@@whitacrebespoke no problem , I made myself a spread sheet to keep track of my planes by maker and where I keep the planes I have no where as many as you do a hundred plus
I do have a Currie, I’m sure there’s more that one but the one I can put my hands on it is rough and has done a lot of work with me as it matched a moulding I needed to replace. I came with the rough Matheson in the video marked 48. This one’s numbered 45 and was 5 or 6 that came from Inchmartine tool Bazar
@@whitacrebespoke the tool Bazar usually have nice and rare plane but can be pricey I bought a Mathieson shouldering plane from them yesterday , I'll have a look back at the vid and see if i can see the Currie plane i think it a good they get used even if they are rough
do you keep the irons set and ready to use on those while they sit on the shelf, or do you keep them loose so that moisture doesn't swell the wood and crack the cheeks? I've seen so many (especially English style smoothing planes with thin cheeks) that are ruined from being left set that it makes me nervous about how to store mine. Great video, really interesting to find a plane with a potential family connection.
They stay as they are I rarely find the wedges swell in the shop if anything the shrink occasionally. If your backing wedges out they need to sit on their nose in a tool box I guarantee the iron will fall out everytime you pick them up otherwise. I’ve not seen overly many that have blown sides out and those that have are usually bowed anyway. Wooden bench planes will do it fairly regular but I think that’s to do with being knocked home hard equally as much as moisture.
Great stuff, thanks. Re the K/- and L/K marks: I believe this is an original price marking, in code. Shops used marks showing both wholesale and retail prices, in shillings and pence. Shire Album 32, The Victorian Ironmonger by Cecil Meadows, quotes some actual codes found in East Anglia, using the letters of CHEKDAPRONS or CUMBERLAND to correspond to the numbers from 1 to 11 or 1 to 10. Unfortunately, neither of those uses both K and L, so your plane seller must have had another keyword in mind!
I like that theory and maybe it’s the case. If I had to put money on it the ink was all written by same so I wonder was it all done by the merchant and in which case your correct in that it’s a pricing code. Or was it a job code? I have others marked in ink that relate to the job or that’s the sense I can make of it. Either way this is the history that’s lost over cleaning these tools. Thankyou for watching and I shall be doing a lot more in the coming months both on using the planes and their history
Adam you have some beautiful planes so nice to see a young man using vintage tools well done you
Thankyou. Not so Young sadly! It’s surprising what an education it is being taught to be proficient in hand tools before graduating to machines. I’m fluent in both now how ever the hand tools are what interests me.
I now volunteer at clumber park joiners shop with 2 apprentice bench joiners love every minute of it
@ excellent and what a setting to work in
What a spectacular channel. I really hope it gains more traction and, as others have said, we get to see a serialised sash window build at some point
Thankyou. It’s looking like I’m going to have to now!
Thanks Adam, would've liked to see anything on the two iron American style planes too 😊
Will look at those next time will drag one out and make a moulding with it.
Thanks for showing your planes , Liverpool had a good number of Scottish plane makers working out of the city , Mathieson had workshops and warehouses in Liverpool at the companies height , I have a very early Mathieson 3/4'' sash plane its fence in 20mm high , do you have any planes by Currie of glasgow my favorite plane maker , I've never seen a bench plane made by Currie only mounding and specialty planes,
Thanks for that info I did not know that. I do have a Currie or two it might take me a day or two to find them though as I can’t remember which they were when I loaded the shelves there definitely were some.
@@whitacrebespoke no problem , I made myself a spread sheet to keep track of my planes by maker and where I keep the planes I have no where as many as you do a hundred plus
@@MrZOMBIE170no chance that’s happening it took long enough to put them on the shelves in something like groups together
I do have a Currie, I’m sure there’s more that one but the one I can put my hands on it is rough and has done a lot of work with me as it matched a moulding I needed to replace. I came with the rough Matheson in the video marked 48. This one’s numbered 45 and was 5 or 6 that came from Inchmartine tool Bazar
@@whitacrebespoke the tool Bazar usually have nice and rare plane but can be pricey I bought a Mathieson shouldering plane from them yesterday , I'll have a look back at the vid and see if i can see the Currie plane i think it a good they get used even if they are rough
do you keep the irons set and ready to use on those while they sit on the shelf, or do you keep them loose so that moisture doesn't swell the wood and crack the cheeks? I've seen so many (especially English style smoothing planes with thin cheeks) that are ruined from being left set that it makes me nervous about how to store mine. Great video, really interesting to find a plane with a potential family connection.
They stay as they are I rarely find the wedges swell in the shop if anything the shrink occasionally. If your backing wedges out they need to sit on their nose in a tool box I guarantee the iron will fall out everytime you pick them up otherwise. I’ve not seen overly many that have blown sides out and those that have are usually bowed anyway. Wooden bench planes will do it fairly regular but I think that’s to do with being knocked home hard equally as much as moisture.
Great stuff, thanks. Re the K/- and L/K marks: I believe this is an original price marking, in code. Shops used marks showing both wholesale and retail prices, in shillings and pence. Shire Album 32, The Victorian Ironmonger by Cecil Meadows, quotes some actual codes found in East Anglia, using the letters of CHEKDAPRONS or CUMBERLAND to correspond to the numbers from 1 to 11 or 1 to 10. Unfortunately, neither of those uses both K and L, so your plane seller must have had another keyword in mind!
I like that theory and maybe it’s the case. If I had to put money on it the ink was all written by same so I wonder was it all done by the merchant and in which case your correct in that it’s a pricing code. Or was it a job code? I have others marked in ink that relate to the job or that’s the sense I can make of it.
Either way this is the history that’s lost over cleaning these tools. Thankyou for watching and I shall be doing a lot more in the coming months both on using the planes and their history