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What is the use of this wooden hand plane?
Hi,
I picked up a couple of wooden hand planes over the wknd. I can figure out what most of them were use for except this one. It has a built in fence so the plane runs along one end of a piece of wood. It cuts a 1/4" rabbit. The next 1/4" is left untouched followed by a 1/2" dado. Both the dado and rabbit are about 1/2" deep. So when I tested the plane out it cut a 1/4" rabbet and a 1/2 dado spaced 1/4" apart. Any idea what the plane was used for? Thanks Alex |
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What is the use of this wooden hand plane?
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It has a built in fence so the plane runs along one end of a piece of wood. It cuts a 1/4" rabbit. The next 1/4" is left untouched followed by a 1/2" dado. Both the dado and rabbit are about 1/2" deep. So when I tested the plane out it cut a 1/4" rabbet and a 1/2 dado spaced 1/4" apart. Any idea what the plane was used for? Hi Alex, sounds like a tongue plane, like in 'tongue and groove'. Here's an example from a German collector's site: http://www.altes-handwerkzeug.de/mus...ut/1533u5.html Wolfgang -- "Holzbearbeitung mit Handwerkzeugen": http://www.holzwerken.de Forum Handwerkzeuge: http://www.woodworking.de/cgi-bin/fo...bbbs_config.pl |
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What is the use of this wooden hand plane?
Hmm could be I'll check but I'm thrown off by the fact it makes two
different groove sizes, a 1/4" and a 1/2". If it was a tongue plane would it not make a 2 1/4" grooves? Alex |
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What is the use of this wooden hand plane?
wrote in message ups.com... Hmm could be I'll check but I'm thrown off by the fact it makes two different groove sizes, a 1/4" and a 1/2". If it was a tongue plane would it not make a 2 1/4" grooves? It would, on 3/4 stock. |
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What is the use of this wooden hand plane?
On Tue, 23 May 2006 07:01:52 -0700, alex.colic opined:
different groove sizes, a 1/4" and a 1/2". If it was a tongue plane would it not make a 2 1/4" grooves? You'd use it on stock less than 1" thick. You'd let one edge of one blade hang over the stock. That way, exact stock thickness doesn't matter to the tongue-cutting process. It would matter on the floor later, of course. -- "Keep your ass behind you" wreck20051219 at spambob.net |
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What is the use of this wooden hand plane?
Hi,
you were all correct. It is a tongue plane. Not sure what I am going to do with it since I don't have he 'groove' portion of the pair. Alex |
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