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My neighbor is moving out of state and graciously gave me wood, hardware, storage boxes, and 5 hand planes.

One was a Stanley 5 1/2 with the dates:
Mar 25 02
Aug 19 02
Apr 19 10

The largest one was a Stanley No 7

I now get to research how to bring these up to standard.

Tasty!

Hey Randall. Nice hall.
You will enjoy dating those and tuning them up.

Go to this site for all the history info you will need

https://hyperkitten.com/tools/stanley_b ... wchart.php

Have fun

Kevin

Kevin,
Thanks for the link. That is a great site.

very nice!

You have benefitted from a generous person. I've decided to hand thickness and flatten the plates for my kit guitar, and just spent almost $200 on a Stanley no. 5 1/2 jack plane (best all-around) and a no. 7 jointer plane. Looks like you have a no. 4 smoother, which I inherited from my father. Congratulations!

Mike

I would just sharpen and use them. Nice set there, everything you'll ever need.

That's an amazing gift! I love these old planes too. I bought a flea-market Bailey No. 4 made in Canada, Type 11 from about 1910. It is part of the complicated Stanley/Bailey story. But while I have the ear of plane lovers, I also have two Woden planes from the UK, one an original Woden from the early 1960s, and one a "Record Woden" from after Record bought the company. They are lovely planes to use - British woodworker Paul Sellers talks about them here:

https://paulsellers.com/2014/05/planes- ... work-with/

He has another blog post about them too if you search. There used to be an excellent web site dedicated to Woden tools, but it has unfortunately gone dark. I am on the lookout for a Woden-branded 2" lever cap on the off chance anyone comes across one somewhere. Bruce W.

You lucky duck!