Downcycled wooden plane
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I have just started looking for a wooden jack plane and halflong (fore plane) to replace those that my father owned but have been “lost” by persons unknown. In my searches I came across a shocking and depressing sight on ebay today, its called an upcycled vintage industrial chic ……. reading lamp. Its actually a very nice wooden plane that has been in the words of the seller “upcycled”, or in my mind downcycled, into a reading lamp!!!!. To add injury to insult there is a very usable iron still in the plane, albeit its sitting on top of the wedge. Its hard to read but the name on the iron is Alex Mathieson and Sons, so being from a Scottish maker and going by the size in the description, perhaps its actually the Halflong I was looking for, gutted.
The price in case you are interested is £99, yes ninety nine of our British pounds. I’m away for a drink to help me calm down.
12 January 2015 at 10:16 pm #123445i feel your pain i’ve just started a new job and one of the joiners shops has an old frame saw and other hand saws nailed to a wall i was looked at like a nutter when i said it was sacrilege.
A Tad off topic, have observed, trendy shops are using basic items such as milk crates, billets of wood for chairs. But what practically bemuses me, when did the advertisement machine, succeed in replacing the word, recycling, changed to up-cycleling. Thus making a new niche, which, people seem comftable following this term? Of little importance, just of interest.
Sympathy regarding your plane experience. For people looking for niche industries, perhaps a site where people can advertise for tools they are seeking. Cheers peter13 January 2015 at 2:09 am #123453I know what you mean. I saw a guy who turned a wooden jack plane into a light. There is one less plane in the world and one more hideous lamp. I see a lot of places using old workbenches as a desk and so forth. When I see old workbenches for sale in antique places they ask for so much money. One furniture store chain, (can’t remember who now) sales a table that looks like a workbench with a shoulder vise and antique like tool chests.
13 January 2015 at 6:33 am #123458Was at a craft show last augest a guy had a floor lamp using a old match box muskit as the pole.( from about 1690 to 1700) It was a real match box worth (if he didn’t drill holes ) over 5k. I asked him if he drilled holes in the box and barel he was very proud of what he did with it He found it in a barn. I told him what it was and what he had done I though he was going to get sick
Go to the shows it can be very upsetting to see what people do in this up dating trend. Good saws cut down and painted on. Horse harness cut up as lamp base,
Frankj13 January 2015 at 10:54 pm #123475I’ve seen a number of perfectly good Disston 26″ saws that have had the blade painted to be hung on a wall. How quaint. In fact, I bought a nice old Disston for $5 from a guy who had others that were painted on. I know most people don’t think of old tools like we do, but it gives me a little heartache when I see stuff like this. Perfectly good tools taken out of circulation.
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