A different thumb plane

[Branson]

I haven't seen one of these before.  Has anybody else?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Old-Antique-Steel-Metal-Planer-Miniature-Hand-Tool-Wood-Working-Utensil-Vtg-Mini-/120886112986?pt=Folk_Art&hash=item1c255fb2da

[Lewill2]

I have seen that style before but I don't recall who made it. Either at a Browns  or Donnelly auction.

[rusty]

Nice, simple design, tho it looks a tad weak around the middle..

But..no screws, nothing to adjust.....:P

[Lewill2]

Rodger Smith's Patented Transitional & Metallic Planes in America Vol II lists it as, Meriden Patent Novelty Co toy size iron block plane, 3 inches long, 1 1/4 inches wide 15/16 wide iron, patent number 282,468 patented July 31, 1883 by Solon R. Rust

[Branson]

Thanks Lewill2.  Toy or not, I like it.

[scottg]

I hadn't seen it. And its adorable!
I have seen the blade clamp though.
Pauli Hamler made a plane with the same design. Sometimes he sends me "culls". Tools that failed for one reason or another and he just didn't want to take the extra time to make them right. He does production batches.
This one was a good but unfinished body with a spare wonky clamp that needed a lot of reverse engineering to make it work, and needing a blade.
I am always delighted to make them work, you can imagine heeheheheheheh
slipper
yours Scott

[Branson]

That's just about disgustingly beautiful, Scott. 

[rusty]

When I look at this thing, I can't help wondering if I should take a ride over to the RISD art museum to see if there is one sitting on the shelf...

I know one thing, you couldn't pay me enough to slide it down a plank ...
I'd be scared I'd smudge it ;P

[scottg]

Its a nice story
Paul Hamler is my "big brother".
Many years ago, I got a letter one day. And then a call.
It was from an engraver in Memphis, named Tommy Davis. 
He had seen some of my work in miniature around, and wanted to get to know me. 
I was flattered, but thought maybe this might be a nut of some kind.
Well, it turned out I was right.  More than a nut, over the next years I was outright adopted into the Davis family.  Totally wonderful people. I cherish every single memory of, and still to this day feel I am a "Davis" through and through.  Steve and Dan are my little brothers, and Wylodine is my younger mom. 
     It happens, that a few years before that, Paul Hamler was just starting out and Tommy adopted him too.

   Tommy is gone now. Wylo is in a home in Arkansas.  Steve and Dan are off on adventures of their own with young families.
  Paul n me keep in touch whenever we can.

Paul made the finest miniature tools of anyone.  Truly incredible. The engraving skill he has picked up in just the last few years alone, is just awful!   
The first pic is one of his. Ebony and ivory.
  The second are mine. They are miniatures of his two patent for full sized planes, that I made him, with help from a small group of miscreants.

    I will never be as good as him, but then I don't have to be. I am just the little brother.
And beside I can take his money over a pool table any day of the week.
  yours Scott

   
 

[Papaw]

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