Sargent #409 Type 5 Smoothing Plane – Circa 1942-1950 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
Read MoreSo, it starts with finding a ton of hand planes that need restoring. After finding a huge lot of planes to restore, it’s sifting through what is actually “worth” restoring, not for reselling, but worth my time investment to bring them back to life. If I won’t use it, then it isn’t worth my time to mess with it. Many
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