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Rob Cosman's Plane AdjuSTAR: Vintage Stanley & Record Version

Name: Rob Cosman's Plane AdjuSTAR: Vintage Stanley & Record Version
Brand: RC Woodworking Hand Tools, Inc
SKU: RCPA-010
Price: 30.0 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.84 (189 reviews)

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Do you find that using your vintage Stanley or Record plane's adjusting knob is a bit difficult? Well we did and decided to fix that by creating our Plane AdjuSTAR adjusting knob to replace the original adjusting knob on MOST (read below) vintage Stanley and Record Planes.

The AdjuSTAR'S star design makes it easy for you to reach in and turn the adjuster with your fingers. The star design also makes reaching your frog adjustment screws with a screwdriver much easier.

IMPORTANT. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT OUR ADUSTAR WILL FIT EVERY VINTAGE LEFT HAND THREADED STANLEY OR RECORD PLANE. (Please read the below paragraph "Won't work on Some Stanley and Record Planes"). To compensate our customers for the possibility that our AdjuSTAR may not fit your vintage plane, we price our vintage Stanley and Record AdjuSTARS substantially lower than our AdjuSTARS for modern planes. ALL SALES OF VINTAGE STANLEY & RECORD ADJUSTARS ARE FINAL - NO RETURNS.

Left Hand Threaded. All of our AdjuSTARS are threaded with LEFT HAND threads, which fit the vast majority of vintage planes; however, Stanley and Record did make right hand threaded planes, which our AdjuSTARS WILL NOT fit on. You can tell if your vintage plane has a left hand thread if you remove your adjuster knob and then reinstall it. If it threads on when turning in a counterclockwise motion you have a left hand threaded plane.

AdjuSTAR Wont Work on Some Stanley and Record Planes. Stanley and Record made tens of thousands of planes at numerous factories in many countries. The standards of production varies between planes depending on when and where they were manufactured. In particular, the threads on the adjusting knob rods are quite coarse and sloppy and have a lot of variability. We have tested our AdjuSTAR on hundreds of Stanley and Record planes and they fit about 90% of left hand threaded Stanley and Record vintage planes. However, we do find a few left hand threaded Stanley and Record plane threaded rods that our AdjuSTARS just won't fit.

DETAILS:

Made of forged bronze.
Designed to fit vintage Stanley and Record LEFT HAND threaded bench planes numbers 5, 5-1/2, 6, 7, and 8.
Does not fit about 10% of vintage , left-hand threaded, Stanley and Record Planes.
Does not fit any vintage Stanley or Record RIGHT HAND threaded planes, nor any Stanley or Record left hand threaded bench planes numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 4-1/2 or 5-1/4.
Does not fit the new Stanley Sweetheart line of planes.
Diameter: 1-7/8 inch outside diameter.
Thread Size. The thread size on vintage Stanley and Record planes is non-standard and commercially unavailable. We had to have our thread dies for Vintage Stanley and Record Adjustars custom made.
Return Policy: ALL SALES OF VINTAGE STANLEY & RECORD ADJUSTARS ARE FINAL - NO RETURNS.

These are so great for fine adjustments

Folks, I can’t say enough about these Adjustars, they really are great . They make adjusting the plane iron effortless and fine adjustments a snap. I have outfitted all my vintage Stanley Bedrocks with them, it certainly makes my workflow a bit easier. Thank you Rob for finding solutions to all sorts of challenges. Well worth the value.

Absolutely BRILLIANT modification

The AdjuSTAR is an absolutely brilliant invention. I have an ancient Stanley/Bailey #8C with the small wheel. Almost needed pliers to turn the wheel. It also, as warned about by Cosman, had an ancient 9/32 - 24 oversized Left handed thread. I purchased a correct 9/32 - 24 UN LEFT hand thread die off Ebay and rethreaded it and cleaned up to the standard pitch and now it works beautifully! What joy to use it now.
Also, I put one on a Stanley/Bedrock 605C Jack Plane and it went right on immediately without any rethreading or clean up and has become one of my favorite planes to use. What a pleasure using this AdjuSTAR. It's quick and effortless and allows good feed technique. I highly recommend it. I even bought 2 more for my #7C and my #6C Bailey's and will likely buy more for my others. You won't be disappointed.

This is my second one, that pretty much says it all.

It is certainly true that the original round rotary knob works fine. But since December 25th, I have been using the adjustar on my 5 1/2. Without looking, I can make the (fine) adjustments in a completely controlled manner and by feel, which greatly enhances my planing pleasure. That is why I bought a second one for my No. 7. I can definitely recommend it.

My second adjustar

I bought my first one for my Bedrock 605 and it was much better than I expected! So of course I ordered another one for my Bailey #4

An AdjuSTAR is Born

Well with this order all of my planes have either an adjuSTAR or mini-adjuSTAR. Incredible does not even begin to describe the control, ease and efficiency of this! JUST GET THEM!

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