Scarce No. 10-1/4 Tilt-Handled Bench Rabbet Plane
The 10-1/4 is what a hand plane would look like if it woke up hung over in a stranger’s bed with a fuzzy memory of the night before and then bolted out of the house without checking the mirror to see that his furniture’s a crooked mess. Yet, intentional.
If you didn’t find that funny, perhaps you can laugh at my expense. When I started collecting Stanley planes, I was dead-set on getting a 10-1/4 into my collection as soon as the opportunity presented itself. Well, the first one that popped on the market was located in Australia (I was in Colorado) and came out to about $1,300 after the exchange rate and crazy shipping costs. Not knowing any better, I eagerly clicked “buy” and waited weeks for it to make the trip halfway around the world. It arrived in a shop-built mini-crate, unharmed by the journey, but with an already-broken tote and really not that great a specimen. Rather than trying to replace it in my collection with a better example, I figured I needed to keep it in the collection to remind myself not to be such an impulsive idiot in the future. So there it remains, taunting me forever.
Moral of the story? Don’t be like me and buy a plane from the other side of the globe for twice what it’s worth. Instead, be a shrewd buyer and buy the one listed here while you laugh at being so much smarter than I was. This one has repairs to the tote, but at least you’re not paying $1K+ for them!
Otherwise, the pictures tell the story.
Ships to you carefully packed and insured just in case.
Scarce No. 10-1/4 Tilt-Handled Bench Rabbet Plane
The 10-1/4 is what a hand plane would look like if it woke up hung over in a stranger’s bed with a fuzzy memory of the night before and then bolted out of the house without checking the mirror to see that his furniture’s a crooked mess. Yet, intentional.
If you didn’t find that funny, perhaps you can laugh at my expense. When I started collecting Stanley planes, I was dead-set on getting a 10-1/4 into my collection as soon as the opportunity presented itself. Well, the first one that popped on the market was located in Australia (I was in Colorado) and came out to about $1,300 after the exchange rate and crazy shipping costs. Not knowing any better, I eagerly clicked “buy” and waited weeks for it to make the trip halfway around the world. It arrived in a shop-built mini-crate, unharmed by the journey, but with an already-broken tote and really not that great a specimen. Rather than trying to replace it in my collection with a better example, I figured I needed to keep it in the collection to remind myself not to be such an impulsive idiot in the future. So there it remains, taunting me forever.
Moral of the story? Don’t be like me and buy a plane from the other side of the globe for twice what it’s worth. Instead, be a shrewd buyer and buy the one listed here while you laugh at being so much smarter than I was. This one has repairs to the tote, but at least you’re not paying $1K+ for them!
Otherwise, the pictures tell the story.
Ships to you carefully packed and insured just in case.
