HANDTOOLS: Wartime Stanley #5 - Very Crispy

[Admiral]

Here's a Type 17, wartime Stanley #5; they don't get much better than this.  100% metal, 100% mechanically, Wood solid and in good shape, plenty of iron, and the extra heft of the wartime planes are valued by many.  This one is an early model, bakelite adjustment knob, but with brass metal, not aluminum, and it has a frog adjustment screw, which is unusual for a wartime plane (two of my users are like this, a #5 and my #7); 99% japanning, all original and correct for type, zero apologies, a beaut. I did a quick flattening of the iron and reset the bevel on my Tormek, and it performs.  Pics tell the story:



















Yours for $45 plus shipping; first PM with an unequivocal "I'll take it" gets priority, and please include your shipping address so I can print up a shipping label and quote you postage.  I don't have paypal, so payment by USPS money order please, unless I know you then a check is just dandy.

Another very worthy plane, ready to go, and this one is a real peach, likely worth more on ebay, but I got a good price and am passing it along.....

thanks for looking.

[dspeer]

where do you always find this fantastic stuff?

[Window Guy]

where do you always find this fantastic stuff?

Rich does come up with some very nice crispy tool's.


Steve

[Admiral]

where do you always find this fantastic stuff?

Many hours of persistent hunting, and discriminating buying, getting totally skunked more than half the time.  But you get to know flea market vendors who know I'm a no BS buyer and they sometimes hold stuff just for me.

[JIMB49]

I'm impressed I too have found the best rust at the flea markets
loml calls me last of the big time spenders when i come home with a hand tool for a buck

[thauburger]

So nice.

[Admiral]

So nice.

Bump for a nice #5......

Let's get somebody off the fence and pulling the trigger, now $40 plus shipping, I'm feeling the love!!

[Window Guy]

Wow that is a great price for a great plane, I can't believe it hasn't sold yet.



Steve

[Admiral]

Plane is sold.

Thanks to all for looking.