22 comments on this post:

1. Perfect – ice skates with the quick release from the CT17!

2. Chris-

   Time for some beer and donuts dude.

   -John

3. The new pieces look like they provide for adjust able height for the tool, and not necessarily consistent height front to back. Are we looking at a hand-powered replacement for a planer which can plane wood flat or at an angle?

4. “Are we looking at a hand-powered replacement for a planer which can plane wood flat or at an angle?”

   Neuron count=8 –top of class so far.

   Keep thinking.

   -John

5. John,

   Is it a really nice version of one of those “Chip Clips” that they sell at the supermarket to re-seal an open bag of potato chips? If so, put me down for two. I can’t stand stale chips.

   -Rutager

6. Could this be a new plane blade honing jig that straddles the stone,and doubles as a gizmo for sealing chip bags,hate stale chips.

7. John,

   After a better look, I’m seeing what looks similar to the AS-24 heads, and the brass part looks like it could hold a scoring cutter; I now would like to guess that it is a large scale combination marking gauge and adjustable square. I threw another log on the fire just in case, but I’m pretty confident that an Hawian shirt and flip-flops are in my future!

   -Rutager

8. George,

   Scary- great minds think a like, warped ones too!

   -Rutager

9. Rutager: There is a reason you are living in Minnesota.

   –John

10. John,

    Yea, the restraining order that says Ican’t come within 1500 miles of you; still don’t know how you got the judge to make it that restrictive.

    -Rutager

11. Okay – it’s a jack plane with adjustable skids which secure to the side. The bottoms of the skids are rounded so they can be set at different heights to allow planing a uniform bevel on an edge which would be useful when coopering (see clue #2).

    Of course, the skids could also be set to the same height to accurately thickness a board.

    As for that brassy component in the top right corner, I think the two small holes for for mounting and the larger hole is for a clamping knob. The slot allows the clampee to slide up and down. What does it do? I need another beer and box of donuts before I figure that part out.

    Chris

12. Just to clarify, I was referring to the plane’s length when I used the term “jack plane”. Nothing else.

13. .
    A spokeshave type device on steroids.
    .
    (unless of course Peter already mentioned this earlier)
    😉

14. I usually ponder these clues late in the evenings, until then I have to revise my “mouse tricycle” guess to “mouse snowmobile” 😉

15. A handpowered machine that alchemically processes hundreds of pieces of green paper into small- and medium-sized bits of aluminum and steel.

16. Its a dovetail jig. Every company has to make a dovetail jig if only to support the principal that you have to build a better mousetrap…

    I have to admit you could build a very fine mousetrap, love your tools.

17. John,
    Could this be a thicknessing hand plane where the skids ride in a track, in which the track is adjustable for height? This would allow the hand plane to plane a uniform taper.

18. Roger, You neuron count is growing…

    -John

19. What’s that little brass thing on the right, looks like the adjuster support in a plane?

    And John said a while ago that every plane from now on will have a depth adjustment.

    But this one is not a plane, or it is.

20. I’m thinking some sort of new-fangled core-box plane, or plough plane, or core-plough-plane.

21. The brass thingy is half-a-nut, which is contrary to the whole nuts of the DSN. Gotta be another block plane with variable geometry, but on three axies, rather than one. There are other fences not shown yet?

22. Alex, you get 5 neurons for the half-nut, and a bonus 10 neurons (out of a possible 10,000) for recognizing that the DSN is indeed all whole nuts.

    That was funny BTW.

    -John