No, not Obama. Jeez, can’t a guy do a non-political post?
So my ex brother-in-law (sad story, I think my sister went a little crazy), moved out of his house and he is a throwing stuff out sort of guy, so I took some tools that my step-father left in his garage, I took the saw and the hatchet because you can always use a handsaw and a hatchet. I took the plane because it looked cool.
First, we have a hatchet.
Pretty cool.
This plane looks very old. At first I thought it was homemade but after checking out the saw (below), I have to wonder if the hatchet and plane are older than I thought.
I’m not sure how old it is. It looks homemade but it also looks very competently done. I didn’t think it was that old until I checked the saw.
On the other side it has HJ (my stepfather Harry’s initials, also his father’s)
I didn’t notice the medallion in the handle at the edge of the blade, my buddy asked, “Hey, what’s that?”
That says, “Walter Cresson IXL Phila’da”
Walter Cresson was an early Philadelphia saw maker in the 1840s and 50s who was bought out by Henry Disston some time before the Civil War.
That saw is freaking old. It must be Harry’s fathers, unless Harry’s grandfather had the same initials.
Awesome.
One more tool.
Her Natural Habitat: Above The Law!
Okay, maybe a little politics.
Got my car. The new guy said he’s working on something else so I have to wait another 3 1/2 weeks.
It’s sucks that something that I overspent on just to make me happy is making me fucking bullshit angry.
doubleplusundead 
That plane looks like something you’d see at The Woodwright’s Shop on PBS…old stuff…it might have had special replacement blades that could do fancy moulding work…
There are two blades surface-rusted together and stuck in the slot.
It’s very well made, I’ll post better pictures. As I look at it, it just looks neater and neater but I cannot find any maker’s mark.
Which seemed odd as they usually put their initials somewhere on such quality work.