Yes, I see. Well now that I am retired I can't afford the drool kind
so I'll make do with what I have. I wish I had bought a few more of
Steve Knights planes before his prices went up.

Never did like Rubber Maid anyway.

San

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 08:55:51 -0700, "AAvK" wrote:


I have been away from woodworking for a couple of years (not by
choice).
I used to buy my Record hand planes from Garrett-Wade but they don't
have them. Is the company out of business?
I bought one of their low angle block planes for about $35 around 2000
now the cheapest I can find is $99 from Lee Valley.
Have prices really gone up that much on hand planes?
San Edwards
now in St. George, UT


The Irwin conglomerate has now made some drastic business changes, and has
destroyed both the Record company and the industrial Marples company. the Jos.
Marples company still is there, as private. Irwin continues to make the Blue Chip
chisels in the Irwin name, who knows if they've changed that good steel to some-
thing cheaper. But, new Record anything is no longer being made. There is one
business in Germany that still has NOS Record planes for sale, no doubt at marked
up prices http://www.dick.biz/ . I saw ?79.xx for the 60 1/2.

Irwin is actually in the Rubbermaid conglomerate. Vise Grip is now under Irwin
as well, very sad ****. http://www.irwin.com/ they also destroyed the Nooitgedagt
tool company in Holland! http://www.nooitgedagt.nl/ click that and see it all. I'm
sure they had a fine point on that one! Luckily I got out of eBay with two new
wooden shoulder planes made by them. Super cheap too.

From now on, when I need a new plastic item for household use I will go to the
.99? Vietnamese super store. The plastic is just as bad as Rubbermaid's anyway.

Alex