Sargent #409Type 5 Smoothing Plane – Circa 1942-1950
This is the Sargent plane, as it was found.
So in this post, I’m going to show the restoration process of this Sargent hand plane. For brevity, most of the commentary will be in notations on the images. This is not an expensive plane by any means, but it was definitely a restorable plane, and I couldn’t just throw it away.
Sargent – right view – before restoration Sargent – left view – before restoration Sargent – bottom view – before restoration Sargent – completely disassembled – before restoration Using wire wheel in drill press to remove majority of surface rust.Rust removed from sideParts after brass wheelBottom of plane after wire wheelAll parts after brass wire wheel cleaningClose up of Sargent cap and brass screws, after brass wheel cleaningMore after brass wheelInside of plane, after brass wheel cleaningAll parts going into the Rustoleum rust remover soak.Handles – before refinishing. Some buffing wheels from menardsAfter some buffing – think i need to sand down the sole of the plane though.Sargent BladeMetal pcs assembled.Original knob on the left…cracked, thinking about replacing it with a stanley one on the right.Replaced the knob with one from the broken Stanley #5 plane, I actually like it better, larger.Think this one turned out pretty nice.
