This is not a gloat
This post might not impress most people so I’m contacting this an exciting find rather of a gloat.
I have always been fond of the more compact software makers. So when I spotted an Aussie hand plane on a “On line auction site in close proximity to you™, I experienced to make a operate for it.
Just after a btalle with another curious yet unsure customer, I won the auction and a handful of days afterwards arrived a Turner no 4 smoothing plane.
I would not clearly show you any images in advance of you have read much adequate, as some of you may well turn your eyes absent in disgust. But I can assure you, there is certainly no need for parental guiding the woodworking design.
Yes, it has plastic handles. Yes, it has a frog built of aluminum.
While you let tho sink in I will inform you the aircraft also has a very solid and nicely built system, the handles are translucent (á la MF permaloid) and that the plane is equipped with a Erik Anton Berg cutter manufactured precisely for the Turner instrument firm.
I will not test to steal the present as all I know about this business is borrowed from the Village Woodworker down below:
thevillagewoodworker.blogspot.com/2012/11/turner-hand-pla…
What I can increase is that I agree with his evaluation. This is a pretty effectively designed hand aircraft. The celluloid acetate handles feels good in my fingers and bring a gentle smile to my deal with, a great deal desired in the dark period of Finnish autumn awaiting the even even worse. The aluminum frog is of system a slight issue. Will it maintain up towards experienced use? But as extensive as remember not to tighten both the lever cap or the frog screws too a great deal I should to be Ok. And I just enjoy acquiring a Berg cutter manufactured exclusively for steel hand planes which can be used not in only in this plane but also my MF no 9.
This aircraft was acquired from an Englishman who claims his father labored in Australia for a couple years and who thinks his dad ought to have purchased the airplane throughout his continue to be. From what I know it has not been made use of for a very long time. It’s not unused but the scar tissue on the area has additional to do with remaining stored absent improperly than from tricky use. The plane has some shallow pitting on equally sole and cheeks and I uncovered rust on the tackle bolts as properly as the bolt housing. By the glimpse of the bleached and really tatty box and the mildew stench coming from it, I would guess the aircraft has been stored in a outdoors get rid of but succumbed to sunshine and different temperatures, which would really effectively explain why the airplane has been corroded.
The handles are intact and I hope that including some wax could possibly assistance them to remain seem. The good news is the handles have not been subjected to direct sunlight.
There’s a pretty nice addition t the fastening of the front knob. The raised housing on the system has a recess reduce into it at the entrance side. The knob has a mating small toe which fits into the recess. This feature will keep the entrance knob from rotating and protect against the person from around tightening the knob. An ingenious invention which would be welcomed on other planes as nicely.
The aircraft has only been taken for a short spin on some ash, but it does truly feel promising. The cutter had been resharpened but not across its entire edge so it wants a suitable resharpening ahead of I can give a verdict.
What I can say is that I have in contrast the fat of this aircraft with a MF no 9 (Kind 2) and a Stanley reduced knob no 4.
The Turner is the decidedly heaviest of them all, even looking at this airplane has plastic handles and a frog produced of aluminum. It weighs in at 1750 grams.
The MF no 9 weighs 1680 grams and the Stanley no 4 a mer 1610 grams.
The distinction are not intellect blowing and might be moot for most end users, but it does say a little something about the solidity of this aircraft.
Posted by Finnberg68 on 2013-10-30 21:41:56
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