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And he STILL got me!
Last week I bought a plane off Ebay from WAY North of where the plane butcher lived. No chance it was the same guy. I thought. Until I opened the package. Yup, sure enough.
Every screw head has flattened places where he ground the rust off. In the case of the lever cap screw the head has been ground down so the bottom of the head is no longer flat and the sides aren’t wide enough to engage the lever cap. It’s also jammed in there HARD which makes me think it’s not a Stanley part at all but one from another plane he just shoved in there and cross threaded. The iron, cap iron, and lever cap have bizarre patterns of polished/ground areas going in all directions where he apparently ground and then did some pretty heavy handed “polishing”. None of the surfaces are flat or meet correctly. The top surface of the lever cap now has a sparkly silver finish which I’m pretty sure Stanley never got around to adding unless they did a “Christmas Edition” one year.
So how am I SURE it’s the same guy? The guy I met had all the irons upside down and the top iron slid over the end like it was some kind of edge protector or something. Same deal with this plane. I’d say it’s a signature.
Oh well. Too good to be true (but not by much) was. Now begins the return battle.
John