Hey Mike (Wallace),
Please feast your eyes upon this bonny item, and then can you let me know fit it may be worth o’er yon bonny banks, O.K ?
And when are you to finish that tool cabinet?
P.S Aaaargh, because I downsized from 150 most of the detail has gone….
P.P.S. Have googled Norris,and am unable to get anything closer than a #12 “strong general purpose smoother”.
I got the #4 bit from the back of the cap iron.
At the front edge it says “Patent metal”, whilst on the bronze cap it says “Norris London”.
It is not an A type, i.eit has no adjuster (unfortunately)
The iron and cap are stamped with the usual WARD solidsteel warranted steel/cast steel.
The body is cast not d/tailed-not the rusting type cast iron.
Edited 7/5/2005 5:59 am ET by Philip Marcou
Edited 7/5/2005 6:11 am ET by Philip Marcou
Edited 7/5/2005 6:40 am ET by Philip Marcou
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P.S Aaaargh, because I downsized from 150 most of the detail has gone....
<suckin thru teeth... shakin heid slowly...
shrunk in the wash huh....??? that's the trouble wi yon pernickety Hinglish planes... tempramental buggers at the best to times...
ummmm..... I dinna honestly ken fit somethin that wee wid be worth... if ye get somebody t look at it wi one eye closed (poke wi a thumb usually works) and the ither een half squintet n waterin ye might be able t pass it aff as a violin plane...??? They're normally little wee ill tricket footery things thit collectin folk ging daft ower... but they're normally bonnier than your wee picture... maybe stickin it in the washin machine at gas mark 5 wiznae sic a good idea ehhhh...???
better get some oil on 'e blade afore it gets ower roosty... hellova job t get it bonny n shiny again after yon's happened....
Oh... while I mind aboot it... the tool chest's comin on jist grand... thankye for askin
;)
Mike Wallace
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OK. How far up the tree do I have to climb before you'll teach me the secret language? And, what night are the meetings?
Jeff
Jeff,
Er, I think I'll just chime in here. That was "Aberdonian English " on a good day. Normally it is unintelligible even to other Scotsmen who do not live within a 10mile radius of Aberdeen.
In the seventies I worked on the oil rigs in the North Sea. Your average Texan toolpushercould not get a grip of my own accent, so I talked to them with my own version of Red Adairspeak crossed with Aberdonian, and added to the confusion. I was still perfecting it on the day of departure.
To answer your question:- if you are not a Scotsman you have to teach yourself and it takes a life time.Dinnae bother ye heed aboot climmin trees.
Hi Philip,
My wife and all her relatives come from a town about 30miles from Aberdeen. Not to be outdone, my brother's wife comes from the next town.
I understand Doric perfectly - made sense to me, even though I live half a world away.
Now, one day, my kids will understand what glaikit means, and then I'll be in trouble.
Cheers,
eddie
Ed, mite,
30 miles? then that's almost in Sassenachland where they speak something almost like English! ;-)
We are talking about Aberdeen Scotland here, not Aberdeen Hong Kong.
Hi Philip,
Och! I kenned the right'un.
They're farmers - they speak a hielan' dialect.
Trust you haven't been flooded away with all the rain we didn't get.
CHeers,
eddie
Rain??? It rains all the time!
Now, one day, my kids will understand what glaikit means, and then I'll be in trouble.
paybacks.???? sare een..!! ;)Mike Wallace
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That was "Aberdonian English " on a good day.
ummmm.... nae quite...
The dialect is Dorrick, common dialect for the north east of Scotland (roughly from Lawrencekirk to Buckie), the exception being the 10 mile radius around Aberdeen; for reasons best known to themselves, toonsers believe their Tory fishwife dialect is somehow superiour... bless em...Mike Wallace
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Nae te worrie laddae, nae te worrie-I jerked a number of chains yesterday....
But it is often amazing what can come up on this forum- see how Eddie in Australia correctly identified the Doric dialect.
Thanks for your info on the Norris-I will follow it up.
The town in Australia where I live (actually its the capital) has the largest Burns club in the world. I used to pipe with the club, and talking and singing on the way home from competitions was a real earful.
about half our members had spent their early years in the shipyards and at least twenty years in Australia. Its amasing how resiliant these dialects are.
Patto,
Talking of dialects-I think these here kiwis are in the process of adding a new dimension to the word.
Bretheren,
It is hereby confirmed,for those who are interested, that the item in question is a Norris # 13 Malleable (er, read Ductile) Iron Smoothing Plane, circa 1920, value 200 to 250 Blitish Pounds.
It does work very very very nicely.
The information was obtained from Inchmartine, United Kingdom.
now there's a turn up for the books...Mike Wallace
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