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3 January 2016 at 7:25 pm #133598
Hi everyone,
Yesterday I was able to buy this toolchest, filled to the brim.
I wanted to share it with you all.The dimensions of the chest are 995x495mm with a height of 565mm.
It is not in the best shape. The skirt has come apart and the lid is
also badly damaged. The ironwork is also very rusted.The tools looked to have been dumped in them quite some time ago.
This is what I found inside:
1 wooden jointer plane
1 wooden block plane
19 moulding planes
10 hollows and rounds (some matched, others didn’t)
2 planes with an iron skate in the middle (don’t know what they are for)
7 gouges
15 chisels
1 hole saw
1 small mallet
2 mortise gauges (1 with pins on the 4 sides, each with a different width)
1 drawknife
1 carpenter axe?
1 kunz spokeshave no 65
1 whetstone
2 try squares
2 sliding bevelsand then some more 🙂
If you notice something I didn’t mention its because I don’t know what it is.
Can someone help me out with that?
Most of the planes are marked with JS. Any idea who made them?Best regards,
Korneel
- This topic was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by Korneel Valcke.
- This topic was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by Korneel Valcke.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.3 January 2016 at 9:05 pm #133617Some, if not most of it indeed had/has woodworm.
I will put the smaller items in the freezer for a night to kill it off and
the rest will be thrown away.
Right now I put it all under plastic so the bugs can’t spreadKorneel
4 January 2016 at 12:07 am #133618Wow, what a great collection. Looks like it could have been handed down for generations more or less complete before the link was broken at some point, and then picked up again with you. Many of the tools, especially the moulding planes, look like they could be user-made.
Do you know any of its back story?
Plough planes were often made with iron skates but yours don’t have fences, could be one half of a tongue and groove pair? Hard to see from the photo.
Matt
4 January 2016 at 12:14 pm #133625The chest belonged to the uncle of the seller. The uncle was diagnosed with Schizophrenia shortly after the seller started working (seller is also retired now).
He now lives in an retirement home thinking he’s a boy of 15.
A bit of a sad story but its what I heared from the sellers.
Most planes are marked with the initials JS but I don’t know the name of the original owner.There are indeed a lot of molding planes. But some of the more ornate moldings seem to
be without iron. Could those be remade?The unknown planes will indeed be the half of a tongue and groove plane.
Korneel
5 January 2016 at 5:10 am #133644Wow, what great luck Korneel. I hope you have many years of fun rehabilitating the old tools and using them. Man, I would love to come across something like that!
It’s unfortunate that the wedges for many of the molding planes are separated from the plane bodies. The wedges are typically fitted to a specific plane (and iron), so you might have a little puzzle to solve to find which wedge goes with which plane.
As for the missing irons of the molding planes, you can make new irons. Lie-Nielsen sells molding plane blanks. You have to shape them and sharpen them yourself, but it can be fun work.
If the would is not bad, you should be able to salvage the woodwormed pieces with a bit of insectide work.
The trunk as a whole looks to be salvageable, and you can certainly make new blades for the planes. That one Mortising Chisel is going to need a new handle turned for it but is a good size. So many wonderful gems in the box. I find the fixed pin mortise gauge a brilliant solution to a common problem. Have you checked to see if the spacings match your chisel set?
29 January 2016 at 2:44 pm #134303Sorry for the late answer ehisey, but the spacings indeed match the chisels.
I guess it can be a bit tricky to make such a mortise gauge but the
result would be very handy.1 February 2016 at 6:38 pm #134396Nice collection! And I think I can spot at least one swedish chisel! The one with red handle seems to be an E A Berg from Eskilstuna Sweden.
2 February 2016 at 8:22 am #134414Ill have to check that out.
It’s unbelievably how a swedish chisel turn up in an old flemish toolchest 🙂3 February 2016 at 7:12 am #134452Yes, it is indeed. Though there was quite a large amount of export from E A Berg and other manufacturers from Eskilstuna. They, and especially Berg, had a big succes att the world exhibition in Paris 1889. The swedish steel industri has a long tradition of high quality works. But the ones who started it all was of course fellows from around your area. The vallons has had a huge impact on the swedish metal industry, with the family De Geerin particular. Today a lot of swedes has vallon-blood in their veins, so they were also successful in other areas than the industry…
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