Floyd L,
I wonder which type of carpenter's plane you are believing we are talking
about. Found a photo of an alike at a Hembygdsmuseum(a district's local
museum) look at the 'hyvel' in the bottom:
http://medlem.spray.se/ffk_hjo/index-6.html_foremal
for lager image push on the photo.

This wasn't a tool anyone from Scandinavia would trade.
It wasn't a tool you would expect to be used outside the farm where the
owner had it or if the owner belonged to a Guild which had started in 14th
century(or earlier), he wouldn't dream to give it to an other person at all.

And you know there weren't so much Driftwood on Ellesmere Island that you
needed to bring one with you there.

Inger E

"Floyd L. Davidson" skrev i meddelandet
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"Inger E Johansson" wrote:
Floyd L,
you don't know anything about who had or who hadn't carpenter's plane
before
1500. Yes the house dates to 1163-1435 AD (680 +100 BP calibrated).

Apparently *you* don't know a thing about who did or didn't have
carpenter's planes before 1500. In northern Europe they date at
least back to the Roman invasions, 700-1000 years *before* the
period you are speaking of.

In Scandinavia you wouldn't find a carpenter's plane owned by everyone,
not
even expect to have one for each man in a family. You better learn a bit
more about what tools that were common and what wasn't...

What you can find in a Scandinavian household has *nothing* to
do with what would have been aboard the average ship sailing to
Greenland in 1400.

Think for a minute! The ships are made of wood. They are *all*
equipped for repairs (and for that matter, to build a whole new
ship!).

Your comments are funny. So funny that is' not worth doing anything but
laughing.

You've got people rolling on the floor now. First you think
there is no wood in the Arctic, and conclude that therefore
Eskimos wouldn't see any value to having a carpenter's plane.
Now you say that because your experience is that not all
Scandinavians are carpenter's, there wouldn't have been a
carpenter or carpenter's tools on board any ships that colonized
Greenland!

All of that would be funny if you were joking, but you are
seriously trying to foist this off as pseudo science or
something. Maybe next week, but not this time...

You all ever heard of drift wood?

Get the drift yet?

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FloydL. Davidson http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)