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Stanley Trammel Points

Figure 1 (left). An 1874 Stanley advertisement showing its nos. 1, 2, and 3 trammel points. The Stanley Rule & Level Co. of New Britain,...

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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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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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Variations on Stanley's Corner Rounding Planes from The Model Shop

Stanley introduced the #144 corner rounding plane in 1925. They advertised these planes as "designed for rounding corners on wall board...

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A Bit of Whimsy from the Model Shop

Shortly after the Civil War and well into the first three decades of the 20th century beadboard was a popular finish in many homes. It...

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Stanley's #75 Bull Nose Rabbet Planes from the Model Shop

Since my last post was on the topic of bull nose planes from the Stanley model shop, I thought we would take a look at this smallest...

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