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>From: Jim Erdman  To: ted@i...,
>oldtools@www3.law.cornell.edu Subject: Re: Bio,// Bedrock(?) plane
>Date: Thu, Nov 8, 2001, 4:02 PM
>

> Ted, Sounds like maybe an earlier Bedrock plane, see Bob Kaune's pages
> for details of Bedrock types:
> http://www.antique-used-tools.com/brtypes.htm
[snip]

     He has a comparison of Bedrocks vs the models made by Stanley for
     Keen Kutter and Winchester. He also has a note on something he
     calls a type 3Z:

TYPE 3Z. c.1900

 - All characteristics of TYPE 3., except... €Beds marked with only
   slanted single digit numbers:"3", "8", lightly milled space where the
   "K" would have been for a Keen Kutter "Bed Rock." Perhaps planes made
   for Keen Kutter but later sold by Stanley in the general market. €No
   patent dates on the bed.

    It appears Stanley had a thing for milling off castings to remove
    writing they no longer wanted to be there. Assuming Ted's is not
    milled, maybe they got it right for once and made a run of Bedrocks
    for a hardware store and removed all the writing from the patterns?

    Vaughn and Bushell planes are marked "Dropped Forged" and I think
    they may have only been made with square sides.

Regards, Steve