On Jul 25, 2010, at 6:57 PM, Joe Ezell wrote:

> <http://www.f150online.com/forums/members/excue-albums-infil-plane.html>  
> 
> I talked him into kicking in 5 yellow handled buck chisels he wanted $3 each
> for. Total out the door for the Plane and 5 chisels.....$40.00. What is
> this??? I know it is an infill. Is it a decent one and who can restore
> it...I aint touching it!! I am afraid I will screw it up. I will tackle an
> old Stanley or Sargent no sweat....but this one, I think is better left to
> someone with more knowledge.

Nice find!  Considering what Spiers infill smoothers go for on ebay, this
definitely seems gloatable.  There are some pretty good infill restorers
here, so maybe one of them will speak up...I recently replaced the bun on
an unnamed small smoother, and it was fun to try and figure out what it
should have looked like.  Judging by the kind of work you do on cues, you 
could do a lot better than I!

> Pretty long post for "notes".  Anyhoo, thanks for looking and I will try to
> not embarrass myself here on the porch.

Welcome, and I think that was a great first post.

-- 
Adam
Port Angeles, WA

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Just dropping out of the shadows. I have been lurking here for a couple
months, reading with great interest all the info the list provides. I
started in woodworking about 15 years ago as an apprentice custom cue
maker. Long story, here are the cliff notes. I was in college and
hustled pool in the summers to pay for the following years classes. I
ordered a custom cue from a local cue maker. When I stopped in to make
payments on my road trip rounds I would do some odd jobs...sweep the
floor take out the trash etc. One thing led to another and I ended up
working with him in the evenings after class. Two years later and my
grades in the tank, my parents said build cues or go to school..I chose
school and got my degree. After I got out of college a few of my old
running buddies kept pestering me to build a cue. Fast forward to today
$100K worth of equipment and a shop full of wood later. I am a part time
cue builder and full time sales manager. Here is a link to a few pics.

http://www.f150online.com/forums/members/excue-albums-cues.html


http://www.f150online.com/forums/members/excue-albums-shop.html




 Last year I got the hankering to work in the flat. Joined Woodnet,
 sniffed around there a month or so and found the hand tool forum.OOPS!!
 I now build a few small side tables, am trying to hand cut dove tails
 that don't look like a beavers chewed them and using hand planes. It
 truly is a SLIPPERY slope. I buy a few tools from Patrick and Josh here
 on the list. I am a user not a collector ( yeah right). Along the lines
 of collector, I frequent a few local ANTEECK malls and the occasional
 weekend flea market. Here is what happened today.


Evening fellas, just got back from a weekend of rust hunting. I was on
my last leg up from Pensacola and stopped by the rattiest looking flea
market just across the Alabama line. This one dude had isles of stuff.
One of those places the girlfriend and I refer to as "head hurt booths".
As I dug through the $50 coffin smoothers and $100 "big wooden plans"
Jacks. This little baby peaked out of the pile.Infill <http://www.f150online.com
/forums/members/excue-albums-infil-
plane.html> I talked him into kicking in 5 yellow handled buck chisels
he wanted $3 each for. Total out the door for the Plane and 5
chisels.....$40.00. What is this??? I know it is an infill. Is it a
decent one and who can restore it...I aint touching it!! I am afraid I
will screw it up. I will tackle an old Stanley or Sargent no
sweat....but this one, I think is better left to someone with more
knowledge.


Pretty long post for "notes". Anyhoo, thanks for looking and I will try
to not embarrass myself here on the porch.



Thanks,

Joe Ezell

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Quoting Joe Ezell :

> Infill
>
<http://www.f150online.com/forums/members/excue-albums-infil-plane.html>
>

Altogether now ladies and gentlemen:  YOU SUCK!!!  (bigtime)

One of the more amazing bios I can recall, and you certainly know
how to take good closeups of the important bits.

Google on Spiers, and you might want to check the early archives for 
the Great Galoot Infill Project..

And welcome to the friendliest cornet of the net!  grreased slopes our 
specialty ;-)

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On Jul 25, 2010, at 6:57 PM, Joe Ezell wrote:

> I talked him into kicking in 5 yellow handled buck chisels he wanted
> $3 each for. Total out the door for the Plane and 5
> chisels.....$40.00. What is this??? I know it is an infill. Is it a
> decent one and who can restore it...I aint touching it!! I am afraid I
> will screw it up. I will tackle an old Stanley or Sargent no
> sweat....but this one, I think is better left to someone with more
> knowledge.

  I did one of these. As found:

http://galootcentral.com/index.php?option=com_copperminevis&Itemid=2&pl-
ace=displayimage&album=39&pos After a bit of work:

http://galootcentral.com/index.php?option=com_copperminevis&Itemid=2&pl-
ace=displayimage&album=39&pos I did think about it a bit before I
started, though.............

Spike Cornelius PDX Crazy for Shavings

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I think we have to come up with a new term to describe post's like Joe's.
What does the assembled congregation prefer: Introgloat-tion? or
Gloat-roduction?
:)

Welcome Joe!

Darren Addy
Kearney, NE
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Joe,
welcome.
Great find.
The lever cap has the script signature mark with what I can just see
the faint few letters of "Reg'd under it. The lever cap is far more
curvy than anything used in the much earlier models. The screw looks a
little unusual, in that the top is larger in diameter, flatter on top,
and it appears to not be square threaded as expected.
They did have either a fine, straight or a coarse diamond knurling.
These are from the very late period, well after the death of Stewart
Spiers in 1899, and it is around the time when the script mark was
registered in the 1930's.

Since some of the pins have already been taken out, the repair is not
dependent on whether you want to leave no evidence that it was done.
Open handled Spiers planes are a 3 piece construction. The handle, the
bottom piece with its top surface aligned with the top of the steel
sides and with a slot cut for the base for the handle to enter at the
rear, and then the top plate.
Here is a page where I did a repair without removing the back pin (
the one that goes through the handle base.)
www.petermcbride.com/plane_repair/
That plane you have is great one to do a restoration on, and I would
encourage you to do it yourself, taking your time and planing it with
a view to how you want it to look at the end.
Here are a some Spiers planes to look at. The open handled smoother,
second from the bottom on the left, is similar to your plane....and
it's handle has been replaced in the way I described on my web page.
www.petermcbride.com/oldtools/spiers/
Here is another page with a set up I use for making handles ( Thanks
to bugbear)
www.petermcbride.com/planemaking/images/double_vice.jpg
On this page...
www.petermcbride.com/planemaking/smooth.htm

Good luck
I think that after looking at pictures of your current work, you will
make a great plane to use and enjoy.

Regards,
Peter
In Melbourne, Australia...a Spiers NUT!

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Evening fellas, just got back from a weekend of rust hunting. I was on
my
last leg up from Pensacola and stopped by the rattiest looking flea
market
just across the Alabama line. This one dude had isles of stuff. One of
those
places the girlfriend and I refer to as "head hurt booths". As I dug
through
the $50 coffin smoothers and $100 "big wooden plans" Jacks. This
little baby
peaked out of the pile.
Infill
<http://www.f150online.com/forums/members/excue-albums-infil-plane.htm
l>

I talked him into kicking in 5 yellow handled buck chisels he wanted
$3 each
for. Total out the door for the Plane and 5 chisels.....$40.00. What
is
this??? I know it is an infill. Is it a decent one and who can restore
it...I aint touching it!! I am afraid I will screw it up. I will
tackle an
old Stanley or Sargent no sweat....but this one, I think is better
left to
someone with more knowledge.

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