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In my manual labour days I often bought old tools because they were so much better than the new ones...except... Take a Stanley number 5 Jack Plane. An old one
by jimnotgym 8y ago
In my manual labour days I often bought old tools because they were so much better than the new ones...except...
Take a Stanley number 5 Jack Plane. An old one weighs less, is flatter, has nicer handles, the iron sits better and the adjustments are better... than a new Stanley. However they are both worse than a Veritas one made on modern equipment, but... at four times the price.
What happened here is that a Stanley in 1940 cost a serious amount of money. A Stanley in 2018 its quite cheap because Stanley decided to stay mass market by reducing quality. However the space they left has been back-filled by newer higher quality makers using modern materials and techniques.
- msisk6 8y agoStory: I just bought a new house and the space for the kitchen range was too small by just a hair for the new induction range my wife insisted on. The construction manager came out and proceeded to take apart a utility knife to get the blade out to use it as a substitute scraper to shave the wood cabinet down a bit. I told the guy I have a good small Lie-Nielsen block plane already unpacked in the garage that'll do a much better job, but he insisted on the knife blade. And you know what? It turned out just fine. I think a lot of folks nowadays have never used a really good high-quality tool and have no idea what they're missing.
- hinkley 8y agoHeck for that job he should get or make a couple of scrapers. They take up no space.