1. I am a Newby here, this is my first post
2. I have been around wood and tools all my life, was a union carpenter for 15 years before I started into supervision, administration and ownership of a commercial building company, but only started to get more serious about wood work since I retired 7 years ago.
3. I have recently become interested in developing a small collection of good working bench planes, specifically #4, #5 and #7; in that endeavor I have purchased through EBay enough full planes and parts to realize that basic collection and I have tuned, lapped, cleaned and sharpened them into a very usable part of my wood working arsenal.
4. During the collecting process I found myself with a Stanley No7C in very good shape by accident as I had been concentrating on smooth bottom planes, and assumed (shame on me) with lack of nomenclature in either direction, the seller knew enough about Stanley planes that she would have called a corrugated bottom No7 plane a No7C. I was wrong (her photos did not include the sole of the plane - again, shame on me...).
5. I have been cleaning the plane up and at this juncture I'm thinking I'll re-list it on EBay when I'm done. In that regard, I would like to be able to accurately state the era of the plane, but after having read all the data I can find on the internet about dating Stanley planes, this particular No7C simply crosses too many of the time line descriptions for me to feel any sort of confidence in determining which type this plane is and thus when it was manufactured. I am sincerely hoping somebody here will see this post who has more understanding about dating planes than I have been able to develop, and will be willing to give me a hand identifying it.
6. There is a photo of the body of the plane attached, if I have done it correctly...
7. The plane body has: *Black* japanning; a raised ring for the knob; No7 cast into the heel; "MADE IN USA" cast into the toe *behind* the knob; "BAILEY" cast into the toe *in front of* the knob; "C-462." cast into the bed underneath the tote; and a "Y"-shaped frog base.
8. The plane body does *not* have raised ribs at the toe and heel.
Thank you in advance, all suggestions warmly welcomed,
John
2. I have been around wood and tools all my life, was a union carpenter for 15 years before I started into supervision, administration and ownership of a commercial building company, but only started to get more serious about wood work since I retired 7 years ago.
3. I have recently become interested in developing a small collection of good working bench planes, specifically #4, #5 and #7; in that endeavor I have purchased through EBay enough full planes and parts to realize that basic collection and I have tuned, lapped, cleaned and sharpened them into a very usable part of my wood working arsenal.
4. During the collecting process I found myself with a Stanley No7C in very good shape by accident as I had been concentrating on smooth bottom planes, and assumed (shame on me) with lack of nomenclature in either direction, the seller knew enough about Stanley planes that she would have called a corrugated bottom No7 plane a No7C. I was wrong (her photos did not include the sole of the plane - again, shame on me...).
5. I have been cleaning the plane up and at this juncture I'm thinking I'll re-list it on EBay when I'm done. In that regard, I would like to be able to accurately state the era of the plane, but after having read all the data I can find on the internet about dating Stanley planes, this particular No7C simply crosses too many of the time line descriptions for me to feel any sort of confidence in determining which type this plane is and thus when it was manufactured. I am sincerely hoping somebody here will see this post who has more understanding about dating planes than I have been able to develop, and will be willing to give me a hand identifying it.
6. There is a photo of the body of the plane attached, if I have done it correctly...
7. The plane body has: *Black* japanning; a raised ring for the knob; No7 cast into the heel; "MADE IN USA" cast into the toe *behind* the knob; "BAILEY" cast into the toe *in front of* the knob; "C-462." cast into the bed underneath the tote; and a "Y"-shaped frog base.
8. The plane body does *not* have raised ribs at the toe and heel.
Thank you in advance, all suggestions warmly welcomed,
John
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