N.A.M.E.S.

[derf]

Anyone going to the NAMES expo in Wyandotte, Mi. this week end?

 

[Tinkertoy1941]

Every Year!!

 

[vtcnc]

So how did it go? Any pictures?


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[Tinkertoy1941]

Good Morning:
The show was well attended by the white haired group! You don't see many young fellows any more. The exhibitors were fewer this year, two we usually buy from were missing. My want list is getting very short at this point in my journey thru time. The fellow that went with me took a lot of pictures.
The enclosed picture is one of my toys!

 

[Latinrascalrg1]

That looks like something I would like to hear more about if you wouldn't mind sharing with the group, what is that?

 

[Tinkertoy1941]

The Planer is a Baldwin Hand Planer made in Laconia, NH

 

[vtcnc]

The Planer is a Baldwin Hand Planer made in Laconia, NH
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I see very little information about N.H. Baldwin on Vintage Machinery, but apparently his father started the foundry in Gilford/Laconia area. Here are the links:
N.H. Baldwin on Vintage Machinery
S.K. Baldwin on Vintage Machinery

You may consider submitting your photos with a description of the planer. That is a piece of history right there whether anybody knows it or not.

I'm curious...you called it a Hand Planer. Is it really operated by hand? What is the approx. size of the machine? Have you used it to make anything? Or is it a show piece?

Thanks for sharing!

 

[Tinkertoy1941]

The planer is powered by hand with the hand crank shown in this picture!


I have a complete shop that is man powered.

• Barnes Foot Pedal Equipment:
• 2- 4 ½ lathes
• 2- 5 ½ lathes
• 26” jig saw
• Spindle Shaper
• Mortise Machine
• 
  
• Treadle Machines
• 1 Goodell Improved Treadle Lathe
• 2 Treadle jig saws
• 2 Power Wheel Treadles
• 
  
• Baldwin hand Planer 24”
• 
  
• Horizontal Mill

My Amish customers are amazed with what can be done with man power!
I also have Computers and CNC equipment I Design and build machines.
I have been making metal shavings for 62 years
Work in the shop almost every day!