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#120 Model Shop Prototype Block Plane; From Evolution to Production

It’s late in the year 1875, and Justus Traut and the men in his shop at Stanley Rule & Level Company are still diligently working on a...

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Justus Traut's Early Adjustable #110 Block Planes

As I told you in my last post, Stanley Rule & Level Company introduced the #110 non-adjustable block plane sometime in 1874. The plane...

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Copy Cat Blocks and One From the Model Shop

On July 6, 1852, Birdsill Holly was granted Patent No. 9,094 for a cast iron bench plane. In addition to his cast iron bench planes he...

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Stanley Model Shop #278 Rabbet and Fillester Plane

The Stanley Rule & Level Company was always interested in providing its customers with the tools they wanted. They were very adept at...

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More Rosewood Buttons on Lever Caps

In my last blog post I talked about two Stanley block planes with rosewood buttons on their knuckle joint lever caps. In this post I'm...

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Rosewood Buttons on Lever Caps

By the 1890's, Stanley Rule & Level Company had become an industrial juggernaut. They proudly boasted in their pocket catalogs that they...

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