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   troys | Mar 05, 2009 07:23am | #1

   Well you can't say he doesn't offer a lot of detailed pictures:) But it looks like a junker to me.

   Troy

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   forestgirl | Mar 05, 2009 07:58am | #2

   Tom, I'm clueless on the original, pristine, Stanleys and waaayyyy to tired tonight to try and research.  Might you be kind and  give me a few hints, or even a complete list, of the abominations.

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-) 
   
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   derekcohen | Mar 05, 2009 09:23am | #3

   FG

   I say this from memory of the images (too horrible to return to) ..

   Mainly the side walls have been ground into low slung curves. This is likely to have been an attempt to disguise a broken/cracked side (so someone decided to make it look fancy). The other is the chipped lever cap, which is minor.

   This is still a good deal for someone who wants it for parts - to keep or to sell on. This is a case when the sum of the parts is greater than the whole! :)

   Regards from Perth

   Derek

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   philip | Mar 05, 2009 11:14am | #4

   Yes Derek,
   I was going to say that somebody obviously chipped out a piece from one of the sides and then just re-shaped the whole thing to suit....Tragic.Philip Marcou

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   forestgirl | Mar 05, 2009 07:43pm | #5

   Ah!  Not so subtle things, eh?  Yes, that body is u-g-l-y!  I didn't look past the small picture at the top, and the description.  I don't care for corrugated.  Wouldn't mind having the blade maybe.  Extra for my plane.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-) 

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   SteveSchoene | Mar 06, 2009 01:31am | #6

   Ugly, yes, collectable, no (except for the parts), but wouldn't it also make a fairly decent user assuming the side walls have enough meat in them so the sole doesn't flex excessively?  The mouth seems OK and with a bit of sole flattening and other standard tune up proceedures, you would still have the relatively large contact areas of frog to bed, and blade to frog, that make the Bedrock design a bit nicer than the Bailey pattern planes. 

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   JeffHeath | Mar 06, 2009 04:02am | #7

   Steve,

   That's exactly what I was thinking.  That plane will probably flex quite a bit with a little downward force placed on it, and that wouldn't work effectively as a smoother.

   Jeff