Stanley No. 45 Combination Plane

I love this plane. Picked this up online not long ago and I have had the chance to test it out. Works really well and is very well taken care of for being over 100 years old. I think it dates to around 1895 if I'm not mistaken. The box that it came in is made of chestnut and is still in pretty good shape too.

The plane came with a couple of extra hollow/round attachments for the bottom along with the cutters. Haven't tried them out yet though.

Here are a couple of sites for more info on the tool.

Toolemera Press - for a manual of the 45 Combo plane.
Hans Brunner Tools - general info regarding most Stanley planes.

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Roubo-ish Workbench - Finished

When I first began building this back in March I had posted a couple of blog entries and had planned to do more as the build progressed. Unfortunately that never happened and now here we are at the end of the journey.

Personally I would rather spend the time in the shop than sitting in front of the computer blogging about my time in the shop.

more photos after the jump...