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Tod Herrli's dovetail plane with cast depth stop. The stop is a copy of an original from an antique fillister plane Tod owns. |
 | Casting detail- as received from the foundry. (Tod buffed the stop shown above.) Backside of casting (left) and front side (right) |
 | I also cast a similiar stop for Scott Post. This is an internal stop that would use a thumbscrew below. What is pictured is a mistake from the foundry. There should be a part projecting from the backside of the casting (which would project into the plane). The pattern broke at the foundry and I wound up with only one good casting (which I sent to Scott). |
 | Original parts from a dado plane of mine used as patterns for new copies. I need to fix the thumbscrew pattern. The halves are out of alignment resulting in lopsided castings! |
 | Castings from above patterns. The misaligmnent can be seen in the thumbscrew on its edge (lower right). |
 | Castings from pattern shown here. It's the logo of the ABC foundry in Chicago (which has recently closed). |
