WOODWORKING--Lets see if anyone is interested

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@Dr Sliptinschit,

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Sounds like a marketing ploy to me.

No, it actually had some improved features. The base of the frog is specially machined and bedded to the machined surface of the plane bottom.

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The Cutter Seat is made with a Tongue on the Bottom side, and a corresponding Groove is formed in the Seat of the Plane Bottom, overcoming any possibility of a shifting or wobbling of the Cutter Seat, making it self-centering, and insuring the Cutter Seat moving a right angles with the Mouth when it is adjusted. The Cutter Seat is clamped to the Plane Body by two screws, and when it is desired to open or close the Throat, it can be done by turning the Adjusting Screw at the back side of the Cutter Seat. This combination of practically ONE-PIECE solidity and great quickness of adjustment is unique in the construction of Planes and will at once be appreciated by every intelligent workman. The Cutter rests on the Cutter Seat for its entire length down to the Heel of the Cutter, the Bevel being the only part that is not supported. The construction of the Cutter itself and its Adjustment are the same as in the "BAILEY" Planes.

...from an old Stanley catalog

I think the "flat ears" were added in later production runs and put there to easily distinguish the Bedrocks from the Baileys.

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@hightor,

all that means little to me. Since Im mostly limited to poer tools where the left hand is more of a balancing beam, My ues of any hand plane are similar, I can use block or edge planes (teeny one handed) I can use a spoke shave if I really bear down with my right hand .

Arent blades in hand planes slightly convex?

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@farmerman,

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Arent blades in hand planes slightly convex?

Sometimes woodworkers will grind their plane irons to a slightly convex shape, but for real finish work you want it dead straight. Scrub planes and jack planes used for removing a lot of wood will often have more substantial convexity.

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