My father apprenticed as a carpenter in England in the forties, for a man that specialized in restoring cathedral pipe organs. When his mentor retired he purchased most of his hand tools so he could go out on his own. A decade ago, when Parkinson’s finally robbed him of his ability to do carpentry, he handed those cherished tools down to me. Being of the power tool generation I set them lovingly on a shelf knowing what they meant to my father. I had just started a project building some Art Deco wall sconces for a home theater when my dad passed away. When I next returned to work on the project I stared at those tools on the shelf and thought of the beautiful things he had created with them. I put the router and shaper away and built the project using his planes, chisels and scrapers. I fell in love with two Stanley planes, a 607 Bedrock and a No 71 router. The project took me way longer than I had planned, but it gave me another chance to say goodbye to my dad and some new favorite tools.
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Stanley No 71
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No 71 in use
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Stanley 607 Bedrock
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Bedrock in use
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Finished wall sconce
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Yes I have the same tool and yes sometimes I still using this plane...........