The Stanley 102 Block plane is a small general purpose, pocket-size block plane with a basic construction. It is manufactured from 1877 to 1962. It is 5 ½” long and comes with a 1 3/8” iron. Bedding angle of the blade (iron) is 20 degrees, and with a

Restoring a Vintage Hand Plane: On a recent trip to North Carolina my wife and I had stopped at an antique store where i found a few decent Stanley Bailey hand planes. For those of you that don't know, a hand plane is a woodworking tool that's bee

My Mom came out to visit a few months back and she brought me a couple old hand planes that belonged to my grandfather (A Stanley #78 and a Stanley #60 1/2). My grandfather was a carpenter, but he passed away long before I got really interested in woodwor