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Here's some pics of the sticker/planer I picked up at an auction on Sat.  It's an H.B. Smith made in Smithville NJ.  I've got another just about like it but not quite as big.  My other will do 7" and this one looks like it'll do 8".  Looks like all this one needs is the knives sharpened and grease and it'll run.  I think I did OK for $30.00  ;D ;D ;D 8) 8) 8)

(https://forestryforum.com/images/03_21_04/Planer%201.JPG)

(https://forestryforum.com/images/03_21_04/Planer%20II.JPG)

Corley5,

Might be a silly question but what is a "sticker/planer"? I know what a planer is but I have never heard the term "sticker/planer".

Thanks
Ron

Some people refer to these smaller old four sided planers as "stickers" why I don't know maybe somebody else here does ???.  It's just a four sided planer

Corely5
Your picture looks a lot like the photo's at this site.
http://www.oldwwmachines.com/PhotoIndex/detail.asp?id=1197
Refers to it as a four head moulder. Look the same?

Looks like a pile of fun in that machine.

That looks exactly like what I've got. 8) 8) 8)  Manufactured in 1906!!!  It's almost a 100yrs old!!!  Gotta love old iron ;D

I've asked around the internet about the term "sticker planer" and the answer I received said that it comes from the moulding industry.   Moulding has always been called "sticks".  Usually the reference has to do with a planer with a moulding head.  Joiners also carry the name.

The first knives into a 12"-4 sided planeer are usually of the configuration of a joiner.  The others can carry moulding heads, especially the side knives which are used for tongue and groove..

That makes good sense, Tom (yeah, you usually do  :) ).

Then probably a more correct term is 'four head moulder"?

 8) 8)  I've always wondered why it was called a sticker.  Thanks Tom