01-28-2021, 01:04 PM
In regards to my post Sargent 409 my intention is not to puff up my chest by saying look what I did.
I do not have any idea as to how many garage sales, flea markets, or auctions, I have been to where I walked past a cheap Handyman plane. One might even consider me a snob because the first thing I look for is a frog adjusting screw, which means I know that it has machined seats for the frog. Yes I know that a lot of planes have machined seats but no adjusting screw. In fact I am not sure that the Handyman series even had machined seats but the frog may even set on the unfinished casting.
The fact is that I just sold a LN scrub for I believe $135 and I had 5 people interested in it within 20 minutes. That means to me that there is an interest in scrub planes. And yes I still work 15 hours a week in a machine shop tool room and yes I have excess to a milling machine and yes I milled out the seat but I could have filled it out with a sharp file in about 10 minutes. The hardest part which took a lot of thought was how to grind the radius and to keep it as prefect as possible so I could or can put a micro bevel on the cutting edge.
Anyway I remembered seeing Paul Sellers YouTube video about using a #4 for a scrub plane. When I was at the auction I remembered it and bought the plane for $2 I figured even If I mess it up beyond use I was only out $2.
So my question is: if there is a market of LN and LV for a scrub why not buy a throw away and try it for your self. A sharp double cut file does the opening and I showed the method I used to do the radius but even that could be made out of wood. If you are at all interested, what do you have to lose?
Tom
I do not have any idea as to how many garage sales, flea markets, or auctions, I have been to where I walked past a cheap Handyman plane. One might even consider me a snob because the first thing I look for is a frog adjusting screw, which means I know that it has machined seats for the frog. Yes I know that a lot of planes have machined seats but no adjusting screw. In fact I am not sure that the Handyman series even had machined seats but the frog may even set on the unfinished casting.
The fact is that I just sold a LN scrub for I believe $135 and I had 5 people interested in it within 20 minutes. That means to me that there is an interest in scrub planes. And yes I still work 15 hours a week in a machine shop tool room and yes I have excess to a milling machine and yes I milled out the seat but I could have filled it out with a sharp file in about 10 minutes. The hardest part which took a lot of thought was how to grind the radius and to keep it as prefect as possible so I could or can put a micro bevel on the cutting edge.
Anyway I remembered seeing Paul Sellers YouTube video about using a #4 for a scrub plane. When I was at the auction I remembered it and bought the plane for $2 I figured even If I mess it up beyond use I was only out $2.
So my question is: if there is a market of LN and LV for a scrub why not buy a throw away and try it for your self. A sharp double cut file does the opening and I showed the method I used to do the radius but even that could be made out of wood. If you are at all interested, what do you have to lose?
Tom