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A prominent public lecturer remarked that he knew no more
striking exhibition of “total depravity,” than for a woman to
take good flour and make poor bread, or for a man to take good
grain and make so poor a thing as whiskey. We think it might be
truthfully It would seem as though the day of “barn carpenters,” or “wood butchers,” as they are sometimes called, ought to cease. The introduction of positive improvements in tools universally used among wood-workers, should produce a higher standard of excellence with this class of mechanics, and a “botched” piece of work ought now to be the exception and not the rule.
The entire assortment of planes, in iron and in wood, includes 30 different styles, and embraces smooth, jack, fore, jointer, and block planes, ranging in price from 2 to $9 each. A circular plane, so called, with a flexible steel face, by which it can be easily adapted to plane concave or convex surfaces, is also embraced in the assortment. This latter plane has a great variety of uses in modern carpentry, and the principles of its operation will be easily understood from a glance at the above engraving. The block planes, represented in the first two engravings have a great many uses where the ordinary plane can not be employed to advantage. The cutter in these planes is held at a less acute angle, and is wetted from the upper side, so they are well adapted to plane endwise of the grain, as in fitting moldings or making close joints at the end of any other kind of work. A great many of these are bought by amateur workmen, and by persons who have a little use for such tool in the ordinary course of housekeeping, easing doors and windows, or making slight repair of furniture. To the mechanic, however, who earns his livelihood by the use of tools, a good selection is of the greatest importance, and he who intelligently selects those tools, which embrace the most time and labor saving features, has a great advantage from the start in accomplishing the tasks of his daily life. These considerations will lead every wood-working mechanic to investigate the merits of Bailey’s adjustable planes when making up his “kit” of tools. The same considerations would also influence every progressive
mechanic who has occasion to use a plow, filletster, or matching
plane, to make trial of the combination of all these The stock, fence, and
base piece (see No. 41,) are made of iron, or of gun-metal,
varying in price from $10.50 to $13 for the entire tool. The
base piece, which constitutes the tool an adjustable filletster, may
be readily removed, thereby ranking a plow and
matching- Another combination tool recently introduced into
market, embraces an adjustable dado, (see No. 46,) and is
known as “Traut’s Patent Dade,
Filletster, etc.” This
tool has received unqualified praise so far as it has been
tested,
A novel invention is that represented in this column—an adjustable plumb-bob. It is constructed with a reel at the upper end, upon which the line is coiled. A spring which bears on the reel, serves to hold the bob at any point on the line when in use; and the whole line may be quickly wound up when the tool is laid aside.
Two very considerable improvements in that most common of all tools, screw-driver, are here illustrated. The grinding of the point to the blade by special machinery, so that the end is perfectly square, while the thickness of the blade remains equal for a little distance from the extreme point, giving it unusual firmness in the screw head; and the introduction of a patent metallic fastening which secures the blade permanently in the handle. The advantages of both these new features will be appreciated by the multitude of mechanics who make constant use of these tools. The foregoing is only a partial list of the improved tools manufactured by the Stanley Rule and Level Company, whose factories are at New Britain, Ca., and warerooms are at 35 Chambers street, in New York City. The company supplied to the dealers last year 54,000 dozen boxwood and ivory rules; 3,600 dozen (more then 22 solid cords) of spirit levels; 3,300 dozen try squares; 1,900 dozen bevels; 2,900 dozen mallets; and corresponding quantities of all their standard tools. All principle hardware dealers have these tools for sale, while descriptive circulars are furnished by mail to all who apply to the manufacturers.
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Two years ago, we referred in these columns to
“Bailey’s Patent Adjustable Planes,” which at that time were
brought prominently before mechanics. It seamed then that the
excellence of these tools warranted predictions of an extensive
sale, and we can now
state that over 70,000 of them have been sold, while the demand,
both in this country and from foreign markets, steadily
increases. This fact is evidence that they meet an acknowledged
want.
in a single
tool, now known in the market as “Miller’s Patent Adjustable
Plow’, Filletster, etc.” It frequently is found in
practical use that a combination tool is but a compromise, by
which many of the best features in the separate tools are
sacrificed in
the combination. It is, however, allowed by the parties who have
used the above tool (and more than 2,500 are already in the
hands of practical workmen,) that it operates in each of the
forms in which it can be used, more satisfactorily than either
of the tools formerly sold separately.
plane, (see No. 43.) With each stock eight plowbits and
a tonguing tool are furnished; and with their use every variety
of work usually done by a set of the
old-fashioned tools can be more readily accomplished.
There is no liability of the stock or fence warping, as
in the ordinary wooden tool, and the entire combination can be packed in less space in a tool-chest than
would be occupied by the regular wooden plow.
only a few hundred having as yet been produced.
Increased facilities for their
production
will soon give it greater circulation among mechanics. The retail price is $10.50, while it is made only in iron.
The principles of both these combination tools are very simple,
printed instructions accompanying every tool when sent to
market.
The use of trammel
points has
become almost a necessity among mechanics who have occasion to
strike arcs or circles larger than can be conveniently done with
the ordinary compass dividers. They are used on a straight
wooden bar of any length. The improved style represented below
is made of bronze metal, with steel points.
Either point can be
removed and replaced
by a pencil socket, if a pencil-mark is preferred in laying out work.
