Junk yard dogs

[Repliconics]

Not wanting to quibble but a 'Grotesque' tool would be covered in curlicues and acanthus scrolls with a fat cherubs riding dolphins around naked women pouring wine for dancing satyrs.

I think Miller may have had that sort of thing in mind with his earliest planes!

[jimbur]

I think Miller may have had that sort of thing in mind with his earliest planes!

Before the fall

[IanW]

Strewth, it was only after I found a good pic of a Preston 1347 at this site that I realised just how much Matt's little plane has suffered. Its own mother might have extreme difficulty in recognising it!

Cheers,

[Vann]

I'm not a 'junkyard dog' collector, I just have a soft spot for them.

Hmm, I think I might be guilty of being a collector

I just bought this...

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to go with my No.8...

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which I'm currently tidying-up to become my No.4 3/4

Still not as good as that Preston though.

Cheers, Vann.

[IanW]

Hmm, I think I might be guilty of being a collector .....

A collector of severely-maimed tools?

.....Still not as good as that Preston though....

No, I think we'll have to try very hard to beat that!

Those two divots out of the side walls on your first pic, Vann - I've seen a few of these, presumably because some clown decided it was too far to walk to get a proper hammer, and used his 4 1/2 instead. Most abusers quit after smashing one side, but our brave boyo must've decided to make his plane symmetrical again....

You could clean it up a bit, sharpen the blade, & flog it as a "4 1/2 Lite".....


Cheers,

[Doggie]

Hmm, I think I might be guilty of being a collector

I just bought this...


Cheers, Vann.

Ex Gollum's tool kit.

[Berlin]

Nice. Get them sharp and working sweetly and I bet you end up loving those bad boys.