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From the simple wooden planes that made the basic joinery possible: Rabbet, Plough, Fillester, Dado, Tonguing and Grooving planes, to its perhaps foregone conclusion. What the... Am I talking about? Believe it or not, I am simply answering Matt question about that odd shaped metal piece I called a Stanley No 45 Cam rest. Yeah really!! :-) In the beginning it was simple, the basic joinery in Western woodworking had evolved into a set of easily executed joinery with a chisel and a saw. But being repetitive and mostly made up of square shoulders, they could easily be made with some sort of wooden planes. GROOVY PLANES A simple chisel stuck in a piece of 2X4 construction wood, could serve as a router plane, a plough plane etc depending how installed and used. The Dado, the Groove and the Rabbet only differ in their orientation to the wood grain and the open edge of the rabbet. Lets cut the rabbet first, it is the easiest. Only thing our plane need is a bottom sole the width of the rabbet ...

Well, parts of it have been snow bound for a while, Cape Breton and area mainly, but here in the Annapolis Valley it is our first real snow fall, we had a black Christmas... Thru last nite and this morning we had our first share of snow, but I am pretty sure I am not going to get much sympathies from my family and friends in Ontario and Quebec, they had more than their share of snow already :-) Ahhhh  I feel your pains, aches and I smell like gas .... This is what greeted Rudy on the back deck for his morning ablutions.... There is more than 3ft of snow on the back deck Yes there are two vehicles down there... The back deck, I carried Rudy in my arms down to a spot I made for him Yes, it look pretty and boohhahh but man, it is no fun to play in... ... Unless you are a young kid. To me the novelty wore off many years ago...  Cleared a small spot with my boots to put down Rudy. Heh, do you mind I'm trying to p... here I had my snowblower serviced recently, as I do every year, fi...

... on Kijiji .... (Sort of the Cdn equivalent to Craig list in the USA) Its been a while I lurked on it, so in between house chores, I figured I had a look see. You never know what you gonna find, it's a crap shot... Yesterday, I got lucky, iI spied this enigmatic listing with no pictures, up from Nov 19th. No pics in your listing tend to do that... they linger without much interest... Two things caught my attention: the fact that it comes with its own box, which means very low usage, and a Pat date of 1901. I already own a No 95 Stanley Butt gauge, but, for Cdn $35 with original box, turn of the century, Yah, I'll go have a look :-) After making arrangements to see it, dressed up Rudy for the ride and made the drive over to Halls Harbour, famous for its lobsters and... its pirate's legend  back into the US war of independence . She brought me a small yellowish paste box with an old Stanley Level & Co label. Heart start racing... Then I opened the box, saw a Stanley N...