I never realised that these old ones used to look so good when new. Well, not as good as this one for sure. All the years of use (and abuse) make this one unique. Good job on this one!
The old tools are so much better than the new stuff, my go to 1" socket chisel was made in Sheffield no later than 1909, warranted cast high carbon steel, 20" long overall, ebay £24.00, bargain, and history, using it to rebuild historic railway carriages.
Your fault mate, my wife and I, sat having pub lunch in castleton, having watched this video last night, just been on ebay and purchased 3x planes for restoration, now got to purchase, bench grinder with different wheels. Wire wool, boiled linceed oll, stones, mate your costing me small fortune. Been looking at a spoke shave, and other old tools, love vids mate, I'm patron to your main channel, just know, my wife will be looking at cabins In Scandinavia. God help me, take care pal.
Arrived, got wire wool and linceed ready. Got bench grinder sander on order, looking forward to doing them, found in garage my grandads old spoke shave, wooden mallet and couple of old wood chisels. Wish us look
Just curious, why not put boiled linseed oil in the re-cycling, nice job by the way, am also currently restoring a Sorby coffin plane from the 19th century, its the quality of the steel that is the best bit, we can all trim and clean beech bodies, but that old high carbon steel is the best.
Thank you 👍 It depends on the type of stone. Some use oil, some water and others don't need anything. Really all the fluid does is carry the "shavings" away
Stubled across your video (as you do) and was truly impressed with you sympathetic restoration of that lovely tool. I've got a few wooden planes I intend to start work on and your cleaning method is inspirational. Subscribed and liked.
Thank you 👍There's definitely an appeal to restoring something to pristine condition like it had just been made but I think in cases like this it's much more satisfying to retain the history and not go too far.
@@ash.pollard Thank you for this restoration. Especially for the tip with boiled linseed oil and a steel wool. I have an old cabinet (and few other things) full of my granpa's woodworking tools and i intend to restore his old workshop. A lot of those tools is between 60 and 100 years old probably. This tip helped me a lot, because untill now i thought about using sandpaper and this idea didn't appeal to me because of loosing this old, worn look on the tool. I will try it out first on an old knife of my aunt. I beleve it was her child puukko knife (we call them "finka" in Poland) when she was in scouts. Those knives were very popular among scouts here when i was young boy too :)
The end result was well worth the effort, that looked so sharp shaving through the wood. Not a fan of the smell of linseed oil, as that would make me a bit pee you kee.
