On 12 Dec 2006 at 16:25, David Nelson wrote:

> My tool collection consists of about 170 planes and
> ephemera from Varvill of York, England, another 100
> English molding and joiners planes, about 200 sash
> makerTMs tools including molding planes and other
> related tools and about 50 Ward and Payne chisels and
> plow plane irons.  I also have several rolls of
> carving chisels I have used on various projects.  I
> collect Varvill tools because they consistently
> stamped the name of the molding or type on the plane. 

You should have seen it before he decided to thin out his collection and only 
focus on what he's got now. There used to be a bunch of American-made 
molding planes too...

-Ken, who has a plane or two that used to be Dave's

Ken Greenberg (ken@c...)
667 Brush Creek Rd., Santa Rosa, CA 95404
http://www.calast.com/personal/ken/wood.htm
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http://www.calast.com/personal/ken/booklist.htm

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