Conversation Between enorbet2 and Turtle

you might like this keuffel & esser set then.

What a beauty! (re: brown and sharps)

Hey Turtle No that exquisite piece of work is not even close to mine. It belonged to a piano tuner and is on display at the Smithsonian. His name was (appropriately I think) ... Mr. Studley

it's a brown & sharps.

is that a 'yankee screwdriver' i see horizontal on the left above the planes? or perhaps it's the drill variation on the theme? i don't think i have that 45 deg head for my combination square anymore, but i do have a very nice rotating one. will get a photo for you. i won't show you my blade; too embarassing what with all the pits, dings, and rust divots.

beautimous stuff! first thing to catch my eye was the mason's tool. the whole image displayed a little dark so i saved it to disk, (hope that's ok?), so i can load it in my image software and brighten it and zoom around some more to take in the details. beautiful case too. is that your work? thanks for sharing.

name just popped in. woodright's shop with roy underhill. brain fart.

thanks for ringing me up. i can smell that pine right now! i wouldn't say i have any 'really' old tools, but i guess that's a relative term. nothing older than around the 1930's, and i don't have any wooden planes. do you watch the old yankee workshop shows on pbs? i forget the guys name and when i just tried searching all i get is new yankee workshop with norm abrahms. anyway, the old show guy did a tour of monticello once and showed a collection of wooden planes that jefferson's woodworking slave made & used. pretty cool.

Hey Turtle - Just wanted to chime in and concur with the multimedia joy of planing wood with a properly sharpened hand plane. The sight of paper thin shavings curling up from the blade, that lovely scratch-slice sound, and with so many woods, and yes, especially soft woods like spruce and pine, that divine smell. Great stuff!

Once I get them out of storage I'll add some pics of old wooden block planes, Stanley and otherwise. You have any really old woodworking tools?