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268224 Kevin Foley <kevin.m.foley@c...> 2019‑03‑28 Re: A tale...
Ed,

Address?  I wasn’t planning my post-mortem garage sale for this weekend,  but
I’ll check with my wife.

Photos — can do. Crummy cell phone picks.  Better pics of the same model on p.
239 of Garrett Hack’s The Handplane Book if anyone still has a copy.

https://kfoley.smugmug.com/Reed/

It was made by Jeff Warshafsky aka Reed Plane Co.  He set out to make a Norris-
type planes in the 80’s. Road hugging weight seems to have been a design
parameter. After taking pictures I put it on the scale.  It’s 7 lbs, 5 oz. The
wood work is a little — uh… elementary? Some of the hardware looks ala McMaster
Carr.  He picked what was thought to be a really good off-the-shelf iron at the
time, a Berg Cryo. Nice, but standard bench plane fare by weight and not near
the heft of the irons in the Norris planes he was trying to emulate.  And the
iron on the Reed beds on metal not wood like the better Norris planes. A gallant
effort but the story goes that at a few more than 100 planes he was looking at
too many hours at a Bridgeport mill for too few dollars and went on to other
things.

Cheers,

Kevin

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