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I noticed that my Stanley No 10 still has the price on it. £2.60 in 1980. And for the doubters no that is not a replacement handle. IMG_2774.jpeg
 
Wow! Even when you allow for inflation (Bank Of England Inflation calculator), that's still only about £12.50 in today's money.

I have kept the price tag on my (C.2000/ 2002) De Walt router, to remind me that £196 for a screaming monster was, is, and always will be, too much money.

That's rather a swish workshop apron you're sporting there, Peter!
 
Lurker said:
Not used much then?
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Correct. We used them on window repairs where you splice in a new section of cill or frame and need to fair the old and new. I have not done many repairs and probably none since the mid 1980s.
 
Mike G said:
Wow! Even when you allow for inflation (Bank Of England Inflation calculator), that's still only about £12.50 in today's money.

I have kept the price tag on my (C.2000/ 2002) De Walt router, to remind me that £196 for a screaming monster was, is, and always will be, too much money.

That's rather a swish workshop apron you're sporting there, Peter!
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I started wearing an apron again about a year ago. I had not worn one since school. Surprisingly it keeps you warm. I got it on the internet from across the pond.
 
Woodbloke said:
There's a LN version on the CHT site for about £500; an absolute snip:ROFLMAO: - Rob
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Yes but mine was a Stanley from the 1980s The plastic handles are only the obvious cost saving. The blade is not the hardest. Mind you I had. No7 Stanley that had at least half an inch of curve on it. I think it developed overtime. I got rid of it and got the Clifton.
 
Mike G said:
Much the same as mine, but with proper workable straps, not silly short bits of nylon webbing.
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If anything the straps are aimed at the generous sized American clientele. I could wrap them around again. The apron is excellent with flaps over the pockets to stop them filling with sawdust.
 
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Woodbloke said:
I found that aprons with straight shoulder straps to be very uncomfortable; I switched some time ago to the Veritas apron with the diagonal straps which I find much better. Horses for dooberies as ever 0 Rob
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I agree the one I have crosses in the back. The cross is held in place by a piece of leather. It takes a little longer to put on and get everything in the right place but thereafter it does not move around.
 
PAC1 said:
... The plastic handles are only the obvious cost saving. The blade is not the hardest. Mind you I had. No7 Stanley that had at least half an inch of curve on it. I think it developed overtime. I got rid of it and got the Clifton.
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My ordinary #5, I think bought new around 1978-9, had those same handles: some sort of brown-purple resin which, I think, was also glass-filled (they were semi-sparkly!). I found them extremely uncomfortable and blister-inducing, and also very hard to clean as they were dissolved by meths and white spirit.

I kept the resin ones as quick+dirty handles for jigs (actually haven't used them since), and fitted a rosewood set from Crown Tools* (back then bought from Axminster).

The Crown Tools ones have been excellent. They make the plane look much smarter, and oddly they also made it much more comfortable. I'm not sure why the latter, as they're almost identically sized and shaped, but no more blisters. It was an instant and long-lived upgrade.

E.

PS: That #10 looks like it has a much thicker iron than the 'cooking' Stanley one that came with my #5. Is that right? I upgraded my #5 to a Japanese laminated "Smoothcut" brand iron (very slightly thicker, but not by much), which it shares with my #4, and that really got it singing. I can't find Smoothcut for UK sale on-line, although Peter Sefton has both Veritas and Clifton irons, which look excellent.

*http://www.crownhandtools.ltd.uk/page33.html
 
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Eric the Viking said:
My ordinary #5, I think bought new around 1978-9, had those same handles: some sort of brown-purple resin which, I think, was also glass-filled (they were semi-sparkly!). I found them extremely uncomfortable and blister-inducing, and also very hard to clean as they were dissolved by meths and white spirit.

I kept the resin ones as quick+dirty handles for jigs (actually haven't used them since), and fitted a rosewood set from Crown Tools* (back then bought from Axminster).

The Crown Tools ones have been excellent. They make the plane look much smarter, and oddly they also made it much more comfortable. I'm not sure why the latter, as they're almost identically sized and shaped, but no more blisters. It was an instant and long-lived upgrade.

E.

PS: That #10 looks like it has a much thicker iron than the 'cooking' Stanley one that came with my #5. Is that right? I upgraded my #5 to a Japanese laminated "Smoothcut" brand iron (very slightly thicker, but not by much), which it shares with my #4, and that really got it singing. I can't find Smoothcut for UK sale on-line, although Peter Sefton has both Veritas and Clifton irons, which look excellent.

*http://www.crownhandtools.ltd.uk/page33.html
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It is the original iron.
 
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