Month: June 2010

From Popular Mechanics, June 1927 ON THE next to the top step of Bill Gettner’s brand-new hand-made ladder lies the plane he should be using. It’s the Sargent Steel Block Plane — the one for just such small jobs as rounding off the last sharp…

From Popular Mechanics, June 1926 Sargent Planes are tools of the master craftsman, but so moderate in cost that they should be on every school and home work-bench. They are beautiful planes — in design, materials and finish. They are efficient in operation, simple in…

From Popular Mechanics, June 1925 SARGENT PLANES Sargent Steel Block Plane No. 5206 Sargent Auto-Set Bench Plane No. 714 You are eager to get the professional touch into your work. To do this it is necessary first of all to use good tools and particularly…

From Popular Mechanics, June 1924 Sargent Auto-Set Bench Plane Sargent Steel Block Plane The Sargent AUto-Set Bench plane is the handiest all-round plane you could have in your workshop. It is true, keen cutting, time-saving. It can be used on the rougher jobs where a…

From Popular Mechanics, February 1927 JUST feel the edge of a Sargent cutter when you’ve rubbed it up a bit. “Sharp” is the word. It’s the chromium steel that does it — the unusually tough and wear-resisting steel which permits the use of a thinner…

From Popular Mechanics, February 1926 SARGENT PLANES Sargent Steel Block Plane No. 5206 Sargent Auto-Set Bench Plane No. 714 THESE Sargent Planes are popular tools with carpenters, manual training instructors and students, and chaps with home workshops. The reason is not hard to find. They…

From Popular Mechanics, February 1925 SARGENT PLANES Sargent Steel Block Plane Sargent Auto-Set Bench Plane SARGENT Planes have been used for years on construction work from one end of the country to the other. They are fashioned from finest metals, perfectly finished and easily adjusted….

From Popular Mechanics, December 1926 NO REASON now for anyone to work with unsatisfactory tools. In every class of tools there are leaders. Devised by workers who simply had to have something better than what they were using. Produced by manufacturers who have overlooked nothing…

From Popular Mechanics, December 1925 SARGENT PLANES Sargent Steel Block Plane No. 5206 Sargent Auto-Set Bench Plane No. 714 YOU may never have to put your plane to the tests that most carpenters give theirs. Nevertheless you want your work to have the finish that…

From Popular Mechanics, December 1923 Sargent Auto-Set Bench Plane Sargent Steel Block Plane Sargent Steel Pocket Plane ABILITY to make things — and TOOLS, good tools, with which to make them! There’s the unbeatable combination! This Sargent Auto-Set Bench Plane is a good, fleet running…