Woodbloke
Sequoia
Matt Platt at Workshop Heaven has just been appointed the European distributor of this manufacturer in the USA. Looks interesting; stock arriving in the Spring apparently - Rob
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Union Manufacturing USA
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Looks interesting kit.
Doug
Old Oak
Have you seen their collectors corner Andy
https://www.unionmfgco.com/collectors-corner
It also appears they do still make some of their old tools for collectors this one not having been made for nearly 100 years.
https://www.unionmfgco.com/products/uni ... -x-no-4-14
https://www.unionmfgco.com/collectors-corner
It also appears they do still make some of their old tools for collectors this one not having been made for nearly 100 years.
https://www.unionmfgco.com/products/uni ... -x-no-4-14
Doug
Old Oak
Bet your transitional plane could fetch £100 wouldn’t it? £280 for a reproduction by the original manufacturer doesn’t sound to out of the way.
Argus
Sapling
Funny thing about older Union planes.
Way back when I was making a lot of cabinets, I used to cut T&G boards for the backs. I aspired to a Stanley No: 48 swing-stock match plane. I eventually found one in a second hand tool shop in Bosham - a long time before Ebay, back in the day when we had proper shops.
Anyway, it looked like a Stanley, but apart from a SW Hart screw head holding one of the blades, there was nothing to denote the maker. Despite all that, I took it home and used it......... good plane, well made and perfectly usable.
I found out a long time afterwards that it was in-fact a Union No 41, and made at the time that Stanley acquired the plane-making side of Union in 1920. They also took in the stock of unfinished castings and ground the Union names off the handles and the numbers from the sides, presumably selling it off as one of theirs. All of this is quite plain, but does show undulation marks, especially in the central cartouche on the handle where the Union name would have been and the side stock in front of the blade where the number '41' would have been seen.
How did it get to the UK?
In those days there were strict importation rules if goods were not from the UK or the 'Empire'.
........a lot of stuff from the USA came via Canada.....
Who knows.
Way back when I was making a lot of cabinets, I used to cut T&G boards for the backs. I aspired to a Stanley No: 48 swing-stock match plane. I eventually found one in a second hand tool shop in Bosham - a long time before Ebay, back in the day when we had proper shops.
Anyway, it looked like a Stanley, but apart from a SW Hart screw head holding one of the blades, there was nothing to denote the maker. Despite all that, I took it home and used it......... good plane, well made and perfectly usable.
I found out a long time afterwards that it was in-fact a Union No 41, and made at the time that Stanley acquired the plane-making side of Union in 1920. They also took in the stock of unfinished castings and ground the Union names off the handles and the numbers from the sides, presumably selling it off as one of theirs. All of this is quite plain, but does show undulation marks, especially in the central cartouche on the handle where the Union name would have been and the side stock in front of the blade where the number '41' would have been seen.
How did it get to the UK?
In those days there were strict importation rules if goods were not from the UK or the 'Empire'.
........a lot of stuff from the USA came via Canada.....
Who knows.