If you're a collector you probably have a lot of something, I have a lot of hand planes. People collect all kinds of stuff but some collectors, also like me, like old stuff. Consequently I have planes that date from the 1820s, really cool planes that date from the 1840s, 50s, 60s, all the way to contemporary stuff that was made 20 years ago. One of the things that makes collecting planes interesting is contemplating its history. I can sit for a long time wondering about the