Took a chance on this wooden joiner plane.

[Mpride1911]

Coming back from the dump Saturday morning and drove past a garage sale, so I stopped.  He had a good selection of antiques there, like he'd had a store at one point, a lot had price tags on it, some things being in fairly good condition, but others were just junk tools.  He had a few wooden planes, and he had this joiner for $55.  The wood had some light cracks, and there was a small chunk missing from the toe, but the iron was intact.   I offered $20, and he agreed.   I took it home and immediately started filling the cracks with CA, and planing the sole. I patched the missing chunk with a piece of maple, and after it was done, I applied BLO and waxed the sole.  The iron and chip breaker were immaculate, and sharpened easily.  The maker was Ibbotson Peace & Co, which were apparently around from the mid 1840s to the 1860s.  I'm pretty happy with the finished product.

[wtnhighlander]

Very nice find! Good work on the patch.

[pkinneb]

Nice that is one big plane

 

[Mpride1911]

8 hours ago, wtnhighlander said:

Very nice find! Good work on the patch.

Thank you, I wasn't sure how it would come out.   Once I started planing away the corner, I started to get a little nervous when I saw how much had to come off, to make a smooth surface.

8 hours ago, pkinneb said:

Nice that is one big plane

 

Yeah, I didn't realize just how big, until I put it next to the low angle jack plane in the picture.

[TerryMcK]

$55 was too expensive but $20 was much more in the ball park. Good find and good repair.