Hi all:
I acquired a lot of Japanese planes as part of a larger purchase. I'm asking $225 + shipping for the lot. Please note the grooving plane with moveable fence is missing the small wedge that locks the fence. Should be fairly easy to fabricate.
You may have seen my post over in Hand Tools asking for info on the planes which was kindly answered by our WoodNet plane expert Wilbur Pan. His commentary below.
From Wilbur:
Here's what you have.
The shorter one is a standard Japanese plane, which can be used as a smoother. The longer one is a Japanese jointer plane. Japanese smoothing planes come up pretty regularly on eBay. Jointer planes are rarer, and tend to go for more.
The good news is that these blades are pretty decent. The bad news is that whoever used to own these planes didn't do a great job of flattening the back. See the shiny areas at the left top area of the blades? It looks to me that someone got too aggressive with flattening the back, and went much further up the back of the blade than they needed to. This is a cosmetic defect, which will affect the selling price. In addition, the flat areas around the sides and cutting edge of the left plane blade are much wider than they need to be, which will make further work on the back more difficult.
From top to bottom:
1. A plane designed to plane a groove. This plane has a moveable fence.
2. A scraper plane used to condition the sole of the first two planes. Seems to be in decent shape.
3. A gotoku plane, or five-way plane. It's called a five-way plane because it can be used in 5 ways: as a smoother, as a left and right handed rabbet plane, and to plane the left and right sides of a groove. More info here: http://giantcypress.net/post/21708578799...-five-ways
These are more specialty planes. The Japanese scraper plane is fairly common. The other two are less common, but you also need to find someone who's interested in buying this sort of plane.
Thanks
David
I acquired a lot of Japanese planes as part of a larger purchase. I'm asking $225 + shipping for the lot. Please note the grooving plane with moveable fence is missing the small wedge that locks the fence. Should be fairly easy to fabricate.
You may have seen my post over in Hand Tools asking for info on the planes which was kindly answered by our WoodNet plane expert Wilbur Pan. His commentary below.
From Wilbur:
Here's what you have.
The shorter one is a standard Japanese plane, which can be used as a smoother. The longer one is a Japanese jointer plane. Japanese smoothing planes come up pretty regularly on eBay. Jointer planes are rarer, and tend to go for more.
The good news is that these blades are pretty decent. The bad news is that whoever used to own these planes didn't do a great job of flattening the back. See the shiny areas at the left top area of the blades? It looks to me that someone got too aggressive with flattening the back, and went much further up the back of the blade than they needed to. This is a cosmetic defect, which will affect the selling price. In addition, the flat areas around the sides and cutting edge of the left plane blade are much wider than they need to be, which will make further work on the back more difficult.
From top to bottom:
1. A plane designed to plane a groove. This plane has a moveable fence.
2. A scraper plane used to condition the sole of the first two planes. Seems to be in decent shape.
3. A gotoku plane, or five-way plane. It's called a five-way plane because it can be used in 5 ways: as a smoother, as a left and right handed rabbet plane, and to plane the left and right sides of a groove. More info here: http://giantcypress.net/post/21708578799...-five-ways
These are more specialty planes. The Japanese scraper plane is fairly common. The other two are less common, but you also need to find someone who's interested in buying this sort of plane.
Thanks
David
! Apparently, I got a good deal on these as part of a larger lot and I'm willing to pass it on to the WoodNet community. I'd also consider offers on the individual planes.