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RE: Stanley #95 Butt Gauge - Downwindtracker2 - 03-11-2019
Veritas now makes one like the Stanley. I thought about picking one up, but they are pricey .
RE: Stanley #95 Butt Gauge - Admiral - 03-11-2019
(03-10-2019, 11:53 PM)Downwindtracker2 Wrote: At the fleamarket today for $5, I found a Stanley #702 vise . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98YeocNaGRY The one I found was in nicer shape and made in England. They are pretty handy . You can clamp them to a sawhorse and hold a door on edge, saves making a door clamp.
Yeah, those are pretty handy vices, when I find them I pick them up. The #700 was the US model, they kept making them in the UK after they discontinued them here. Pic off net.
![[Image: 6283.png]](https://www.vintagetools.net/userfiles/productimages/large/800-600/6283.png)
RE: Stanley #95 Butt Gauge - Bill_Houghton - 03-11-2019
Actually, both the 700 and the 702 were produced in the U.S. and in England. I don't know why Stanley felt it was necessary to produce both.
I've owned them, but didn't keep them, except for one as part of my clamp-on vise, um, no, it's not a collection, I just have them, really, not a collection. I didn't feel they clamped firmly enough to a sawhorse to be useful, although I can see using them as part of a door buck when mortising for hinges and latchsets.
The one I'd like to find at a yard sale is the early model of the Stanley 700:
![[Image: vintage-early-1900s-stanley-no-700-clamp...08c937.jpg]](https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/1/0408/02/vintage-early-1900s-stanley-no-700-clamp-on-vise-4_1_14095313be9d2488f98144b43a08c937.jpg)
but they're pretty uncommon.
RE: Stanley #95 Butt Gauge - Downwindtracker2 - 03-11-2019
How many block planes did Stanley make ? The aluminum ones are thin castings and are light. I have it in my toolbox right now. The cast iron ones look more serious. I didn't get to hang the door today, I got help , so we hung drywall instead.
The local rock and gem club rented the basement of a 100 year old community hall for a workshop. My wife is the rockhound, so I got volunteered . Boy, I'm racking up points.
RE: Stanley #95 Butt Gauge - Bill_Houghton - 03-12-2019
(03-11-2019, 08:42 PM)Downwindtracker2 Wrote: How many block planes did Stanley make ? The aluminum ones are thin castings and are light. I have it in my toolbox right now. The cast iron ones look more serious. I didn't get to hang the door today, I got help , so we hung drywall instead.You could go here and count. I think the answer is, "quite a few, and more if you count the variant models." I think the aluminum and pressed steel models are maybe not the best of their planes, for definitely sure; I'd want cast iron for any plane I was actually using.
The local rock and gem club rented the basement of a 100 year old community hall for a workshop. My wife is the rockhound, so I got volunteered . Boy, I'm racking up points.
And hanging drywall earns double points, as does mudding it. Triple if it's ceiling drywall.
RE: Stanley #95 Butt Gauge - Downwindtracker2 - 03-12-2019
Just a wall, they asked that we leave the old floor joists and wood beams exposed. Floor joists are honest 2x12 rough cut old growth Douglas fir , the beams and posts are 10x10s . It would be sacrilegious to cover them.