So my sister frequents garage sales and I got sent this picture and was quite excited to say the least, I've been looking for an old Stanley #7 or #8 for a while now since my shop is too small to have a "real" jointer.
Glamour shot for the "before"
Patent dates from 1901/1902/1910 and a small adjustment knob places it in the 1910-1918 (Type 11) range for original manufacturing. Not in bad shape at all considering it's a century old.
So finally found someone willing to give me an offcut of granite after getting quoted $150-250 from a few places. Cut up a belt from my 4x36 belt sander and we were good to go.
Initializing the sides here, had one low spot that won't go away without a ton of work but I think it adds a bit of character, it's 100 years old no sense in making it look exactly brand new. Not to mention it would have been hours to get that side fully flat below that spot.
Took the belt sander to the cap iron and chip breaker to clean those up a bit. Flattened and sharpened the blade which was in weird shape as it looked like someone had used a dremel and a sanding wheel to clean up the rust previously, super wavey and had some funky free-hand grinding edge profile on it... but finally got it squared up and a good sharp edge put on it
Eventually got it polished as well but didn't snap a pic.
At home with my other planes.
Before
After... she works!
Glamour shot before painting/refinishing
Next up I used some paint stripper and elbow grease to get rid of the poly on the handles and the chipped/worn paint on the bed
Taped off the sides of the bed and applied a few coats of flat black paint (excuse the super messy bench) handles just got a few coats of danish oil followed up with some paste wax.
And reassembled
Before/After:
A few other glamour shots:
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