Following an earlier decision to check out secondhand shops and antique shops for old tools which might be interesting/useful, I came across this strange item, no doubt designed for the man who hasn’t got time to put one down and pick another up – a laudable aim no doubt but it’s fairly flimsy and doesn’t have particularly good adjustment, also lathered in a nasty varnish, as were all the other tools in the shop I visited, there was a rather nice hand plane, a small version of a number four but it had been turned into a table lamp and to add insult on injury he had etched his name into the sole! Also a pile of moulding planes of which quite a few had the wrong blades fitted.
If interested and it’s still available I could buy it for one of you collectors, $20 if I remember correctly. Ian