> On Dec 25, 2017, at 3:55 AM, yorkshireman@y... wrote:
> 
> Clico took over the tooling - some of it, that has history going back to
Preston.


I saw the Clifton 311 shoulder plane on their site.  It is exactly like mu user
Record 311, which is a later version of the Preston 311.   Mine has no finish of
any kind on it - I take that back.  It is stamped “WAR FINISH”, so no finish is
apparently a finish,

And remember that Mythbusters proved you could polish a turd.

Ed Minch