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Profiles cut with a Stanley 45

3/18/2019

 
The Stanley 45 has slightly different abilities when compared to the 55. At it's core, it can cut grooves, rabbets, dadoes, tongue and groove, beads, slit, and sash. Only with add-on cutters could the 45 being to cut additional decorative profiles. Here are a few examples of the Stanley 45 in action.

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Profiles cut with a Stanley 55

3/18/2019

 
Here are a few examples of profiles cut with the Stanley 55 combination plane.

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The $16 Stanley 55

3/10/2019

 
In 1899 the Stanley 55 Combination Plane cost $16 (around $487 today, adjusted for inflation). It contained 55 cutters (hence its name), but an additional 41 cutters were available for sale. Since it performed as a plow, dado, rabbet, filletster and match plane, a beading and center beading plane, a sash plane, a slitting plane, and a mounding plane, Stanley said it could replace a full line of “Fancy Planes.

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From Rough to Flat

3/2/2019

 
Using a single hand plane, you can take rough sawn lumber from the lumber yard and make it ready for furniture. Leave your car parked in the garage, your ear protectors hung on the hook, and the electrons in the wall. You could even do this in an apartment and Mrs. Robodello, the neighbor below you, wouldn’t even know.

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