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4 February 2014 at 12:11 pm #27210
My Record 05 fell off of bench and broke rosewood handle 🙁
Luckily I have a defunct No.07 as the sole got damaged years ago rusty and pitted and not flat.
So I took handle from that and put on my Record 05 but it is not rosewood and just don’t feel the same.Attachments:
You must be logged in to view attached files.4 February 2014 at 3:43 pm #27217Mark i feel for you i hate breaking anything like that and it is usualy so avoidable (in most of my cases)i do tend to clean around me like a mad man after doing something like this .
4 February 2014 at 3:53 pm #27218Mark, sorry to hear that. I feel for you as well as not too long ago had a very old Disston saw handle crumble in my hand.. after a while one resolves to “lovingly restore” it but of course it’s not the same.
4 February 2014 at 4:38 pm #27223Robin I was thinking of glueing it up but it dose not go back together to well fibers got a bit stretched . Not only that I know joins would be there.
4 February 2014 at 5:27 pm #27228I’m not for sure on this, but I think a rear tote from a stanley #5 will fit. Maybe someone who knows for sure can chime in.
There is also this…
http://www.axminster.co.uk/rosewood-plane-handle-set4 February 2014 at 6:00 pm #27231I agree with Sandy. Make a new one and it will be more valuable to you than the original. I have made some pieces to replace broken horns on both saws and planes. I don’t think an entire tote would be too difficult.
Mark, sorry to hear about this. Here is a link to some templates for stanley planes. Although yours is a record the templates might give you a starting point if you decide to make a new one. I made a rear tote for my number 7 last year using these templates.
http://www.leevalley.com/en/wood/page.aspx?p=63262
4 February 2014 at 6:51 pm #27255Sorry about that Mark I bet you said something along the lines of “O Dear what a pity”
That is a useful reference Dave for the handle templates
Just a quick comment about making a tote, the only difficult part for me was drilling the hole down the length for the long bolt. If you have access to a drill press use it, if you only have a hand drill, scribe both ends and drill thru from both ends. The rest of it is simply shaping the wood with the usual methods/tools. It took me a couple hours from start to finish.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.14 February 2014 at 10:31 pm #27863[quote quote=27256] scribe both ends and drill thru from both ends. The rest of it is simply shaping the wood with the usual methods/tools. It took me a couple hours from start to finish.[/quote]
I too have made my own toat (tote?) for my Stanley No 4, after I dropped the tool and broke the original. I happened to have a nice piece of very dark mahogany I had acquired somewhere. I second the problem of drilling that hole, I was using a stanley wheel brace, slowly. I remember I didn’t have a bit long enough, and ended up with only a whisker in the bit, to make it reach the hole from the other end. They didn’t line up very well, and I used a rats tail file to correct the alignment. That was so many years ago now, I don’t remember how long the shaping took, but it was certainly a lot longer than a couple of hours! Mainly using a metal spokeshave (I hadn’t discovered the wonderful wooden ones then) and rasp and file. I didn’t even have a sharp knife for carving in those days, either. The mahogany has now bleached almost pine coloured in the light, despite a coat of stain prior to varnishing with copal varnish.
It is slightly quirky campared to the original, but fits my hand better and I’m very proud of it! -
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