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  0 Thread: Help with Hollows and Rounds
Post: RE: Help with Hollows and Rounds

WoodTinker Wrote: (11-08-2018, 01:32 PM) -- A 3/4 cove would be a no6 H/R and a 7/8 cove would be a no7 H/R Attached is the chart of the plane number and the radius of the profile. -- Assuming you...
Don McConnell Woodworking Hand Tools 11 6,976 11-08-2018, 01:49 PM
  0 Thread: Dutch Hollow and Round Planes
Post: RE: Dutch Hollow and Round Planes

Hi Tom, According to Gerrit van der Sterre's _Four Centuries of Dutch Planes and Planemakers_, F. Wilhelm Dürholz, late 19th century, is a mark sometimes found on irons in planes sold by Hendrick P...
Don McConnell Woodworking Hand Tools 2 2,536 09-11-2017, 11:15 AM
  0 Thread: Handworks 2017 in Iowa
Post: RE: Handworks 2017 in Iowa

Following up on Ron's comments, for me, one of the highlights of the show was the group of teenagers who were members of a 4-H woodworking club from Henry County, IL (about a 2 hour drive from Amana)....
Don McConnell Woodworking Hand Tools 59 43,395 05-29-2017, 09:19 AM
  0 Thread: Today's find - Mephisto
Post: Re: Today's find - Mephisto

According to information from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office web-site, the last listed owner of the Mephisto trademark (as originally filed by the W. A. Ives Mfg. Co.) is the Mephisto Tool Co., ...
Don McConnell Woodworking Hand Tools 15 12,477 04-30-2016, 12:12 AM
  0 Thread: Today's find - Mephisto
Post: Re: Today's find - Mephisto

Sorry this is coming in rather late. But, in my defense, my attempts to find something more substantive regarding the "Mephisto" mark has proven to be something of a rabbit hole.[br][br]My first insti...
Don McConnell Woodworking Hand Tools 15 12,477 04-29-2016, 12:27 PM

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