Went looking for hand planes.    Found a few to restore.    A Miller Falls? Mohawk-Shelburne #700 Block plane cost me a whopping one dollar.    Total Rust Bucket.    Got it restored, even found a front knob for it. 

Next stop, a little Antique Store.  While the planes in the store proper were a might pricey ($45 for a no-name #5) they have the “barn” beside the store.  In it. I found two planes.  on the first trip to this store, bought a small rusty, barely there plane for $5.   took it home and remove half it’s weight in rust & crud.     After a good cleaning up, and a tote repair, I now have a Union  smoother in the stanley #3c size.  

The other plane at that store? well, for $10 i could get a #5 sized rusty plane.     It even had thre roofing nails under the frog.   A stamped steel frog at that.     Iron was stamped “Worth”  so someone made this for the Worth Company.     About WWII vintage.   Still had a very good  iron in it, no cracks in the base, or the handles.    13-1/2″ long.    iron was even  cambered nicely. 

So, for about $16, I wound up with three “user’ planes.    I’ll try to post some before & after shots of the three amigos..