plow plane unidentified logo

[znamien]

plow plane does any one recognize this logo thank you

[Jim C.]

Sorry I can't help you but Les (Lewill2) will be along sooner or later and he might have the answer.

Jim C.

[Lewill2]

That is a new one for me. My first guess is it is an owners mark because it would have taken to long to inscribe that mark. It is to big of a mark to be stamped so it would have been hand done with a compass type of scribe. Can you see any letters/names stamped under the design?

[Branson]

I agree with Lewill2.  First, it's not like any tool logo I've ever seen on a wooden tool.  Too complex an image, too lightly drawn.  But it would be very easy to make with dividers, being a multiple of 6.  Reminds me of one of the Penn. Dutch hex signs. (hex = 6)

[Bill Houghton]

Can't help on the logo, but a terminology comment: plow planes are usually defined as planes to make grooves (think of an agricultural plow and the furrows that it leaves in the field).  Is that what this one does?  It looks more like a tonguing plane, from the picture of the end of the body.

[Chillylulu]

Spirograph. Deluxe edition.   

Chilly

[Jim C.]

Spirograph. Deluxe edition.   

Chilly

I had a Spirogragh set as a kid.  When I saw the original post above, that's actually what I thought of!  That was a good toy......

Jim C. (who feels fortunate that his childhood memories aren't clouded with Xbox, iPhones, texting, and unlimited TV channels)

[znamien]

hello, thank you all for info, here are pics of blade,

[Lewill2]

A matched set of tongue and groove planes of this size are usually called Plank Planes used for cutting tongue and grooves on the edges of heaver planks. Smaller sets of tongue and groove planes about 9 1/2 inches long are called Match planes used to cut tongue and grooves on thinner wood boards about 3/4 of an inch thick.

Just my understanding of the different sizes.

[Branson]

W. Butcher blade.  One of my favorite edged tool makers.  I've found the steel in these to be first rate.

[znamien]

thank you everyone

[turnnut]

could be the users private mark ?

the blade; William & Samuel Butcher, tool, cutlery and steel manufacturers of Sheffield.

W. & S. history;

http://www. wkfinetools.com/huk/Butcher/history/hReview/02-History-Butcher.asp