Sparks...

[scott]

...first I've felt in ages. Burned some film today, first large format since, like, 10/2017. I've kind of lost the spark with photography. No time, other priorities, change of life. But it felt good to spend as much time as I wanted today. Nice.

img041 by Scott, on Flickr

img042 by Scott, on Flickr

img043 by Scott, on Flickr

I really need to dip back in here more often. Hope you all are doing well. Thanks for looking.

Scott

[alexvaras]

Thank you, Scott, for sharing. Wonderful photos. I hope you too are doing well whatever you are in.

[Julio1fer]

Good to see you back! These are beautiful B&W.

I am puzzled, what is the Stanley device?

[alexvaras]

In English should be carpenters hand plane??
Basically used for making wood plane.
(Español: cepillo de carpintero)

[Brazile]

Good to see you back, Scott, good atmosphere on the shots. And a nice Sweetheart knuckle-joint block plane, too; I have one also and it's one of my favorites.

Alex, the above is what they're called. The "Sweetheart" bit is a nickname for the 30s-era branding of "SW" (for Stanley Works) in a heart. The "knuckle-joint" is for that particular style of lever cap, which has a cam-operating hinge in it to tighten the cap down. The generic term in English for a plane of that configuration is "block plane". In Stanley's commonly-used plane numbering system, this particular model is a #18.

Robert

[Brazile]

Julio, more than you ever wanted to know about Stanley woodworking planes can be found at Patrick Leach's site:

http://www.supertool.com/StanleyBG/stan0a.html

I bought my first bench planes, a #4 (smoother), #5 (jack plane), and #7 (jointer plane) from Patrick about 25 years ago now, which is a little startling to me.

Robert

[alexvaras]

I think I have a #5 or #7 at the country house when I started to work with wood. Every year I clean it and lube it and I do nothing else.

[Julio1fer]

Wow, thanks. My uncle was a carpenter and I used to “help” as a child. Should have recognized the tool.

[Brazile]

I think I have a #5 or #7 at the country house when I started to work with wood. Every year I clean it and lube it and I do nothing else.

Almost certainly a #5. Most common plane, tremendously useful. I love mine.

Robert

[scott]

Thanks everyone - good discussion!

FWIW, woodworking is something else I have no time for these days. I have about a dozen or so handplanes, the #18 is probably my favorite, but the #5 is probably most used. I have a #65 block which is similar to the #18 but beds the iron at a lower angle. Much better condition, the iron is in better shape, but the #18 is just so nice to use. For a while I was buying up old beaters and fettling them. So I don't have many very pretty planes.

All that said, I did somewhat recently use the #18 on the Seneca 8x10 project, trimming the odd kludgy back to fit. So there's that.

Scott