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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Sargent Transitional type Study
Type 1 1891-1901 Twisted finger end with Horseshoe lateral Type 2 1902-1909 Twisted finger end with folded disc type lateral Type 3 1910-1918 VBM Folded […]
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A “Sargent made Dunlap”–Chip Breakers-Cutters and Hock
This Dunlap #408 came to me in a lot of other planes, so being a bit of a Sargent fanatic, I decided to see what […]
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