Included here are all of the web sites to help date, or otherwise known as typing or type studies for vintage hand planes.
And Make sure you are keeping track of your collection
Sargent
TimeTestedtools Dating for Sargent #400 series
TimeTestedtools Dating for Sargent single number or Shaw patent series
Union
Union Planes and What I know about them
Stanley Bench Planes
(The best books are Antique & Collectible Stanley Tools Guide to Identity & Value and Patented Transitional and Metallic Planes in America)
TimeTestedTools Dating for Stanley-Bailey’s
http://primeshop.com/access/woodwork/stanleyplane/DataMisc.htm
Stanley Trademark Stamps at Virginia Tool Works
The Superior Works By Patrick Leach
Stanley Plane Dating Flowchart at WoodCenteral
Stanley Plane Features Timeline MegaChart
Bailey Identification at Virginia Tool Works
STANLEY “LIBERTY BELL” PLANE TYPE STUDY By Robert E. Ziegler
Jun Plane Fun – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSbsAZibVxk
Stanley English Bench Planes
TimeTestedtools English Plane type study draft
Stanley Block Planes
A Stanley #140 Rabbet and block plane Study (oldtooluser.com)
Stanley Transitional Planes
Miller’s Patent
http://www.dbosse.nonesuchtools.com/
Record hand plane dating.
http://www.recordhandplanes.com/dating.html
Typing the Stanley #45
- #45 Type Study by Gordon Muster
- Patrick Leach’s Blood & Gore
- Hans Brunner’s #45 type study
- https://www.lumberjocks.com/topics/43282
Typing (dating) Bedrock includes Keen Kutter
http://www.antique-used-tools.com/brtypes.htm
Virginia Tool Works Bedrock Type Study
Dating Millers Falls
Millers Falls Plane Specifications at Virginia Tool Works
Dating Block Planes
http://virginiatoolworks.wordpress.com/tools/stanley-planes/date-your-block-plane-type-study/
Dating a #113
http://www.oldtooluser.com/TypeStudy/StanNo113cpTypestudy.htm
Wooden Hand planes
Identify the Maker of your Plane
Chaplin
The Chaplin Type study from Peter McBride http://www.petermcbride.com/chaplin/
Stanley #71 – #71 1/2 and #271 type studies
http://www.hyperkitten.com/tools/routers/stanley/
Metal Router Type Study Page by Lars Larson
http://www.hyperkitten.com/tools/routers/index.html
Ohio Tools
My Notes on Ohio tools Timeline (draft type study)
Spoke Shaves
An Index of Various Spokeshaves or The Stanley/Bailey Spokeshave Index By Peter Robinson
Fulton & Craftsman
https://aplanelife.us/ or download the Craftsman hand plane type study
Stanley #78
There is a two part type study that was published in the MWTCA Gristmill in 2008 — https://mwtca.org/the-gristmill-archive/real3d-flipbooks/issue-133-december-2008/
This 2nd part has some changes that were made which make it better. — https://mwtca.org/the-gristmill-archive/real3d-flipbooks/issue-134-march-2009-2/
Stanley Bailey Frog Type Comparisons
