Tool Talk
Woodworking Forum => Woodworking Forum => Topic started by: dowdstools on January 01, 2016, 12:04:05 PM
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As you head down that slippery slope to antique hand tool use, you will discover a myriad of hand planes, some designed for a single dedicated purpose. Case in point - the wooden hand plane on the left is called a "spill plane", and its only function is to create the long, tightly twisted shavings seen to its right. Before matches were a common and inexpensive item, these "spills" would be used to transfer a flame from the fireplace to a pipe, candle, lantern, etc. The plane on the right is a Stanley No. 3 smoothing plane, with the shavings from it shown for comparison. The spill plane is 10 3/4 inches long, 2 5/16 inches wide, and has no maker's mark on it. It may have been made by a craftsman for his personal use.
(http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd226/lynndowd/spillplane1.jpg)
(http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd226/lynndowd/spillplane2.jpg)
(http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd226/lynndowd/spillplane3.jpg)
(http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd226/lynndowd/spillplane4.jpg)
Lynn
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Very cool!
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A one trick pony plane!
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That's one I have not seen before.
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A one trick pony plane!
Yeah, Papaw, it has one job to do, and it does it well.
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as many times that I had seen the words "SPILL PLANE", I never knew what they were for.
thanks for the education.
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Very interesting
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Lee Valley has a modern production version of this tool.
www.leevalley.com /US/wood/page.aspx?p=64338&cat=1,230,41182