Thanks, Jim -
    Since I've gotten this second copy of your reply, I'll toss it back
out to the group.

I did check Bob's site more carefully and this time spotted the
BedRock/KeenKutter Comparison link. What I have is likely a KeenKutter,
type 4 or 5. At least the lateral lever (twisted) and lever cap (plain)
are consistent with that. However, Bob doesn't mention ANY models
completely devoid of marks on the main casting -- as mine is. An
anomaly, I guess.
    Thnx again
    Ted

Jim Erdman wrote:

> Ted,
> Sounds like maybe an earlier Bedrock plane, see Bob
> Kaune's pages for details of Bedrock types:
> http://www.antique-used-tools.com/brtypes.htm
> Type 4 and earlier Bedrocks didn't have the pins and
> screws that the later types had, just regular frog
> attachment screws like regular Bailey planes.
> Hope this is of some help.
>
> Jim Erdman (Menomonie, WI)
>
> --- "Stevenson, Ted"  wrote:
>
> >     I'll end (for any brave souls who've read this
> > far) with a
> > What-is-it? question. Once I started looking over my
> > 'old tools,' I took
> > out and dusted off an old #3 bench plane that had
> > been bequethed to me
> > by a retired carpenter friend. I'd been using it as
> > a scrub. On
> > dismantling it for a good cleaning, I figured I'd
> > "type" it using the
> > flow chart. But no luck. The only identifying mark
> > on the entire tool is
> > on the iron (Stanley Sweetheart logo). The body has
> > no cast ID of any
> > kind, BUT, the frog/bed mounting system -- and the
> > form of the frog
> > itself -- are apparently identical to the BedRock
> > design (as found on
> > B&G). That is a sloped (20 degree?), grooved, fully
> > machined bed that
> > meets the tongued, fully machined frog. There is a
> > single frog-adjusting
> > screw engaging a stud screwed to the frog proper,
> > just as illustrated at
> > http://www.supertool.com/StanleyBG/bedprop.htm. The
> > difference is that
> > the frog is retained by two screws into the bed, as
> > with a Baily design.
>
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