A FEW ADDITIONS TO MY OWN COLLECTION

Don't get to  do this too often anymore...hard to come up with either a better example or something "new" ...but this weekend...September 1st '08, I actually did manage a few things:

simple things first...Bailey Tool Co. Woonsocket RI hand scraper...

simple tool with a locking blade, much the same as the design they used for their spokeshaves and early planes..

Here's something that I really needed...yeah, right...just don't tell my wife!

the cleanest Sargent No. 57 scraper plane I've seen..this is the smaller version...9" long and 2 1/2" wide...the larger one (No. 59) is 3" wide...

I paid dearly for this one...

but well worth the money

and finally an addition to the museum..

God, how dumb am I...A Stanley No. 104, Liberty Bell smoother...steel bodied plane...type 1...certainly make it easier to find parts...

this is how I got it...cost $2...made up for the Sargent 57

here it is cleaned up as much as I would like to see it:

probably give it a coat of wax...and try to find a cutter set....