Stanley’s aluminum series of planes is one of the most intriguing in the seemingly endless catalog of the tool giant’s products. The goal when Stanley developed the aluminum planes was to reduce weight and, so the thinking went, reduce the woodworker’s fatigue from planing for extended periods of time. Sort of makes sense, and why not? So Stanley pioneered a cutting-edge manufacturing process that could take any regular-sized roll of aluminum foil (brand apparently did not matter), six empty 12 oz. beer cans, and a cheap anodized carabiner and transform those raw materials into an aluminum bench plane. The process evidently involved intense compression followed by decompression, elongation, curing, and final milling. Imagine that! You stick some random aluminum crap into a machine, and out pops an aluminum No. 5 plane body, light as a feather. Elegant. Graceful.
Of course, nothing we just said is true. At least, we don’t have any reason to think it is true. But, as we like to say, anything’s possible! Dare to dream! We don’t really like saying those things. And now we’ve lost our train of thought. Ah, this plane!
This Sweetheart aluminum No. 5 Jack with outrageously nice rosewood, a partial Sweetheart tote sticker, and Sweetheart iron is a great example of a well-cared-for aluminum jack. Aluminum: not just for beer cans anymore.
Ships to you carefully packed to the extreme and insured just in case.
Stanley’s aluminum series of planes is one of the most intriguing in the seemingly endless catalog of the tool giant’s products. The goal when Stanley developed the aluminum planes was to reduce weight and, so the thinking went, reduce the woodworker’s fatigue from planing for extended periods of time. Sort of makes sense, and why not? So Stanley pioneered a cutting-edge manufacturing process that could take any regular-sized roll of aluminum foil (brand apparently did not matter), six empty 12 oz. beer cans, and a cheap anodized carabiner and transform those raw materials into an aluminum bench plane. The process evidently involved intense compression followed by decompression, elongation, curing, and final milling. Imagine that! You stick some random aluminum crap into a machine, and out pops an aluminum No. 5 plane body, light as a feather. Elegant. Graceful.
Of course, nothing we just said is true. At least, we don’t have any reason to think it is true. But, as we like to say, anything’s possible! Dare to dream! We don’t really like saying those things. And now we’ve lost our train of thought. Ah, this plane!
This Sweetheart aluminum No. 5 Jack with outrageously nice rosewood, a partial Sweetheart tote sticker, and Sweetheart iron is a great example of a well-cared-for aluminum jack. Aluminum: not just for beer cans anymore.
Ships to you carefully packed to the extreme and insured just in case.
