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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>
> 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/museum/hobel/nut/1533u5.html
Wolfgang
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> 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.
Australopithecus scobis <[email protected]> wrote:
>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.
Plane so that 1/4" side is always on the bottom, then plane the floor
flat after the boards are laid?
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.
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