Hi all. I just picked up an old Stanley No. 7 in very nice shape which with minimal tuning will be a very nice tool. I’m clueless about judging the age of this tool – can anyone point me towards a guide for judging (roughly) the age of the tool? I don’t care about a pricing guide, I just want to know how old it is. Thanks.
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Patricks Blood & Gore is a good resource for typing and dating Stanley Bench Planes.
http://www.supertool.com/StanleyBG/stan0a.html
Have the plane handy as you read
David C.
Great link - thanks. I'm guessing 1910 to 1930 or so for my "new" No. 7, which works like a charm.
what you wanna find is the "type studies" either in the Walters book or the sellens books on Stanley tools/planes....both of which are certainly available either through yer library or through interlibrary loan at likely no cost.
Not hard to figure out how to use em...
Eric
This website has a step-by-step flowchart that will date your plane based upon the details of it. Pretty cool site.
http://www.hyperkitten.com/tools/stanley_bench_plane/dating/
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