Ohio Tool Works No. 3 Smooth Plane

At a recent family gathering, my father&rsquo;s cousin Stu slipped me an object in a brown paper bag. Contrary to the opinion of some observers, the bag didn&rsquo;t contain a bottle of hootch. Instead it was an old hand plane. Stu&rsquo;s father and grandfather had run construction companies, as has Stu, and he found this plane amongst the old tools. Knowing that I&rsquo;m a woodworker, he passed…