by Dan Swartz
(New Sewickley Pennsylvania)
Purchased 11/2010 from a local school district. This machine had been in storage for several years. Machine was completely disassembled, cleaned, sanded and repainted, bearings both for the motor and jointer head replaced, along with the belt, power cord and blades. This is a 4 bladed machine with a 1HP motor. Cast iron base has the raised ribs polished along with other machined surfaces.
I’m a former woodshop teacher, cabinet and furniture maker, and avid tool collector. I’ve been collecting antique woodworking tools and restoring old Craftsman and Delta machines for almost forty years. I love the quality of the old Delta, Craftsman, Walker Turner, and other woodworking machinery from the 1940s through the ’70s. They just don’t make tools like that anymore and no one is going to be restoring woodworking tools purchased at big box stores fifty years from now. You can see my OldWoodworkingTools.com website about hand tools.
