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I found this very nice adjustable block plane but have no idea who made it. It looks like a Lie Nielsen, but there are absolutely no markings I can find.
The overall size is 1 3/4" wide x 6 3/8" long
Blade 1 3/8" wide
Nickle chrome cap
Bronze adjustment wheel
Very heavy casting
Any ideas?
Here's some pictures.
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To my guess it's a LN clone made by Quiangsheng. They make a lot of LN clones for several brands with different quality. If it was a LN, the casted body would tell it probably. I never came across a LN Block Plane without the casted maker's mark.
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+1. Woodriver, or a chinese clone. LN would never put out a plane without its name on it.
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Thanks! I'm guessing that's the answer.
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Interesting: it looks like a substantial casting, but the bedding for the iron, from the photos, appears to have grooves in it. Is the bedding as irregular as it looks?
No reason why it shouldn't be a good plane, if the machining was done well, although installing a replacement iron, if the delivered iron is not a good one, might/would require cutting the adjuster slot.
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What Klaus said... Scroll about 0.75 down this
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LN uses a bronze cap, this one is nickel plated.
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(08-02-2016, 04:36 PM)Bill_Houghton Wrote: Interesting: it looks like a substantial casting, but the bedding for the iron, from the photos, appears to have grooves in it. Is the bedding as irregular as it looks?
No reason why it shouldn't be a good plane, if the machining was done well, although installing a replacement iron, if the delivered iron is not a good one, might/would require cutting the adjuster slot.
I think the lines you see in the bedding are made by the milling machine end mills. But I could be wrong.
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(08-03-2016, 07:54 AM)Timberwolf Wrote: I think the lines you see in the bedding are made by the milling machine end mills. But I could be wrong.
Likely so; the question, in terms of use, is whether these lines are actual ridges. If the bed is smooth, the milling marks are unimportant; but if the lines are ridges in the bed, that's what the iron will be resting on.
