Robert Lang
Stainless
- Joined
- Apr 3, 2007
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN
After Tom Stockton won the nice old planer on ebay I felt an iron deficiency comming on.
What to do about it?
I decided to go down to southern Minnesota and pick up a planer I had bought from a friend quite some time ago.
My friend is now 80 years old and I thought I better get it now before it is too late.
When I bought it from him I had a thought of who the maker was but I was not sure. The makers tag was gone.
I am now sure as to the make and it is what I originally thought. It is a Phoenix Iron Works planer. It is a 20 1/2" x 4' cap(17" x 50 3/4" table size, not including chip troughs). I think it dates to the mid 1850's.
It looks just like the one in Cope's planer book on page 134, Fig.1(which is pre 1854), except for the legs, which is what threw me at first, but when I saw the Phoenix legs on the 1856 lathe(Cope's lathe book page 118, Fig.2) and the legs on the Phoenix index mill(Cope's mill book page 159 Fig.2) I knew for sure.
pre 1854 planer
legs
1856 lathe with same legs
index mill legs
Rob
What to do about it?
I decided to go down to southern Minnesota and pick up a planer I had bought from a friend quite some time ago.
My friend is now 80 years old and I thought I better get it now before it is too late.
When I bought it from him I had a thought of who the maker was but I was not sure. The makers tag was gone.
I am now sure as to the make and it is what I originally thought. It is a Phoenix Iron Works planer. It is a 20 1/2" x 4' cap(17" x 50 3/4" table size, not including chip troughs). I think it dates to the mid 1850's.
It looks just like the one in Cope's planer book on page 134, Fig.1(which is pre 1854), except for the legs, which is what threw me at first, but when I saw the Phoenix legs on the 1856 lathe(Cope's lathe book page 118, Fig.2) and the legs on the Phoenix index mill(Cope's mill book page 159 Fig.2) I knew for sure.
pre 1854 planer
legs
1856 lathe with same legs
index mill legs
Rob