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Stanley "Bedrock" 607 with Pinnacle/IBC blade and chipbreaker

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I bought this at a sale of a local deceased luthier's estate. I believe the original is from about 1920. But not a collector's item since it has been modified and the Japanning is nearly non-existent but it has a very nice new tote, the sole is flat, and the blade/chipbreaker upgraded to an IBC/Pinnacle combination. Sitting next to my Record 04 for scale. I did not have jointer plane so I'm happy to have found this locally for a price I was willing to pay.

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I think that might be an ordinary no 7 with a bedrock lever cap - it doesn't have the distinctive straight-topped sides.

But I'm sure it will be a good user, and a bit surprised that you've managed to produce so much beautiful work without one!
 
The "No 607" cast into the body would suggest an actual Bedrock - do the flat-topped sides vary by date or country of manufacture?
 
spb said:
The "No 607" cast into the body would suggest an actual Bedrock - do the flat-topped sides vary by date or country of manufacture?
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:mad: Good point - I missed that!
 
AndyT said:
I think that might be an ordinary no 7 with a bedrock lever cap - it doesn't have the distinctive straight-topped sides.

But I'm sure it will be a good user, and a bit surprised that you've managed to produce so much beautiful work without one!
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Well this might come as a surprise Andy, I’ve been making furniture for 50 years the last 15 professionally and although I’ve tried long planes I’ve always gone back to a nr4, even long panel joints aren’t a problem, it always just seems to find the high spots, logically I know I should have gaps but no, all good.
Ian
 
According to folks who obsess about these things, the flat topped sides were introduced in 1911/1912.

Prior to this, my "long" plane has been a #5. And like Ian I've gotten by OK with that. I'm looking forward to giving this one a try.
 
Just wait util you get a No8 makes the rest seem like toys.

The early bedrocks didn't have the square tops to the casting.

Pete
 
Back in the 80s, when I was beginning to get into woodworking more seriously, I did a short evening class at a local secondary school. There was no syllabus, it was just a mixed bunch of adults in a well- equipped workshop with a skilled and patient teacher on hand to show us the way.

One thing I built was my first proper bookcase, from reclaimed mahogany, about six foot tall and three foot wide.

Edge planing the upright boards was my first experience of planing something where I needed to walk along. The extra heft of the No 7 I was provided with meant that I could take full length shavings, even if I stopped and restarted.

I bought myself one soon after, and I wouldn't want to be without it.

And I now know a bit more about bedrocks than I did, so thanks for that (y) .
 
AndyT said:
Back in the 80s, when I was beginning to get into woodworking more seriously, I did a short evening class at a local secondary school. There was no syllabus, it was just a mixed bunch of adults in a well- equipped workshop with a skilled and patient teacher on hand to show us the way.
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I was one of those 'skilled and patient teachers' and I used to do two evening classes a week for several years during the 80's. Some students took it very seriously but for most it was a social evening where we discussed the goings on of Blackadder and Baldrick during the tea break and biccies - Rob
 
Woodbloke said:
I was one of those 'skilled and patient teachers'.....Some students took it very seriously but for most it was a social evening where we discussed the goings on of Blackadder and Baldrick during the tea break and biccies - Rob
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Rob, most teachers (moi aussi) would recognise your description as typical of every class: 'let's distract Mr Stoakley; that way we don't have to work!' 😎 I remember non sequiturs of every shade and type, especially from some very lateral-thinking Sixth Formers. My response? "Hold that thought, Nigel/Gus/Obadiah!".
 
SamQ aka Ah! Q! said:
Rob, most teachers (moi aussi) would recognise your description as typical of every class: 'let's distract Mr Stoakley; that way we don't have to work!' 😎 I remember non sequiturs of every shade and type, especially from some very lateral-thinking Sixth Formers. My response? "Hold that thought, Nigel/Gus/Obadiah!".
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Agreed Sam for main stream pupils of every denomination, but these were fully paid up evening class adults a couple of whom were retired Majors and a Lt.Colonel. One or two were old dears well into retirement who liked nothing better than to way lay me on my rounds to discuss the local village gossip or the antics of their brood of grandchildren. You get the drift - Rob
 
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