Stanley 50 S Review By: I.Ball
Category: Old Multi Planes
Manufacturer: Stanley
Plane Type: Plough
Model No: 50S
The Stanley 50S plough plane is a comfortable sized plane for creating
a wide range of grooves and rebates.
The Stanley plough plane 50-S is also spelt, Stanley plow plane 50-S.
I believe the spelling 'plough' is the English spelling, and the spelling
'plow' is the US spelling.
The Stanley 50S is exactly the same as the Stanley 50 except it only
has 8 cutters opposed to the 17 cutters of the Stanley 50.
The cutters sold with the 50S were purely for plough, rebate and dado
work.
The Stanley 50-S plough / plow plane was supplied with the following cutters as standard:
Plough: 1/8", 3/16", 1/4", 5/16", 3/8", 7/16", 1/2", 5/8", 7/8"
These 8 cutters were presented in the same wooden sleeve as what the
Stanley 50 cutters were presented in; a sleeve designed to house 17
cutters. This can lend the appearance, when buying / selling a second-hand
Stanley 50-S that the plane is missing cutters to anyone unfamiliar with
the plane.
The idea behind this was to encourage users to buy the additional cutters
and fill the sleeve up at later dates as and when the additional cutters
were needed.
As such it is fairly common to find an orange Stanley
box with a Stanley 50S label on it, yet the wooden sleeve inside has
the full set of cutters (or more than the 9 standard 50S cutters).
If the plane has all of the cutters, the plane is effectively classed
as Stanley 50 combination plane.
For the core details of the Stanley 50S, please see the
Stanley 50 plane review.
Body :
cast iron
Blades:
best steel
Handle and knob :
rosewood
Plane finish:
nickel plate
<1958 - 1960>
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