Category: Sargent

The Sargent Vintage Hand Plane Tote Differences

It would take an intensive study to determine all the differences in totes among the various models and sizes of Sargent hand planes.

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Rare, Uncommon and Valuable Sargent Metallic Hand Planes

Rare And Uncommon Sargent Metallic Hand Planes. Not in any particular order. The #60 Probably the rarest is not a hand plane, but an accessory. […]

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Rare Sargent #8C Shaw Patent Found

This is a Rare Early Sargent #8C Shaw Patent smoothing plane From the collection of Christopher Fryrear On this plane we see a frog marked […]

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The Sargent Prelateral #400 series Hand Planes

The Sargent Prelateral #400 series Hand Planes as published in the March 2023 issue of The Gristmill By Don Wilwol Tool collectors, traditional woodworkers, and […]

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Sargent Model Shop Tools: Prototype Successor to Shaw’s Patent Planes?

By James R. Gillis Here it is at only the second post of this blog and I’ve gone off the subject of Stanley Model Shop […]

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Sargent #415 Restored

This was originally posted on February 1, 2015. The Sargent #415. The Sargent# 415 is like the Stanley #5 1/2 size. Here are the before […]

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Interesting Hand Plane Tidbit for Today (1)

Samuel Oxhandler’s design, patent #D137,230, for a bench plane was done for the Sargent Company of New Haven, Connecticut. It was later cited as a […]

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Look-A-likes – Sargent Auto-Set and Stanley/Gage Self Setting Planes

By James A. Clarke (Hilton NY) Some Background: To put my following comments into perspective — I am retired from engineering of signal control systems […]

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Circular Planes

Most major manufacturers of vintage planes had circular planes in their line up. Circular planes, or planes sometimes called Compass planes, are for planing convex […]

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