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Wilkes-Barre plane makers
I thought I'd start this thread to try and gather as much information as possible,
about Jacob Siegley, Ewdin Hahn and the Keystone Tool Works.
John Rumpf wrote an excellent book on the subject back in 2007, but since then more of the planes made in Wilkes-Barre have come to light.
But still very little is known about them.
Hopefully we can start to address that here.
Just to get the ball rolling, I collect Siegley and Hahn planes.
With the Siegley number 2 adjustable being my favourite, thats because in the 20 years or so that Jacob Siegley produced the #2.
He made changes to it both small and large ending up with a huge number of variations on the same plane.
Which is how I try to explain having over 20 of them.
I'll keep adding to the tread but if you have any information about
them it would be great to hear.
Thanks Trevor.
I thought I'd start this thread to try and gather as much information as possible,
about Jacob Siegley, Ewdin Hahn and the Keystone Tool Works.
John Rumpf wrote an excellent book on the subject back in 2007, but since then more of the planes made in Wilkes-Barre have come to light.
But still very little is known about them.
Hopefully we can start to address that here.
Just to get the ball rolling, I collect Siegley and Hahn planes.
With the Siegley number 2 adjustable being my favourite, thats because in the 20 years or so that Jacob Siegley produced the #2.
He made changes to it both small and large ending up with a huge number of variations on the same plane.
Which is how I try to explain having over 20 of them.

I'll keep adding to the tread but if you have any information about
them it would be great to hear.
Thanks Trevor.