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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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Justus Traut's Bull-Nose Plane

Before I tell you about it, let's put this bull-nose plane from the Stanley Model Shop in its proper historical context by delving a bit...

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From the Stanley Model Shop - Charles Miller's Tonguing and Grooving Planes

Continuing with the theme of tools from the Stanley Model Shop, here's one of my favorites. This plane was designed and patented by...

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Traut's Patent Hollow and Round Plane

In my last post I described a nice little curved bottom block plane made by Justus Traut that dated from 1897-1902. We know that Traut...

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