Ivory & Iron

[Dr.Al]

I found this interesting so I thought I'd share here in case others haven't seen it:

https://www.handplane.com/906/the-ancie ... ire-wolds/

 

[Pete Maddex]

Didn't RXH make one?

Pete

 

[Cabinetman]

Very interesting and the write up was done by someone who knows about planes, the two rectangular holes through the body of the plane were described as handles but I wondered if they were to take bars to enable rebates or grooves to be cut somehow.

 

[Dr.Al]

Didn't RXH make one?

Pete

I don't know who RXH is, but this is a recreation: https://www.lumberjocks.com/showcase/ro ... ted.79158/

 

[Cabinetman]

From memory he was/is a member over in the other place.
Ian

 

[rxh]

Didn't RXH make one?

Pete

Yes Pete - well remembered

 

[AndyT]

Hi Richard - thanks for putting the record straight.

I can remember a bit more from 2017 - at one of Richard Arnold's charity get togethers, I was privileged to have a go with Richard H's beautiful reproduction of the Goodmanham plane. I can report that it worked perfectly, and that the holes do indeed work as very practical hand grips. There was a tradition in other countries of making large planes with grips like these, but it's not something that caught on here. There are just so many different ways of making a plane!

 

[AndyP]

That’s obviously not Ivory what wood is it?

 

[rxh]

That’s obviously not Ivory what wood is it?

It is holly - its appearance is a bit like ivory.

 

[Mike G]

HI Richard.

I remember that plane well..........but I hadn't remembered the little hammer based around a Yorkshire T-fitting.

Did you offer the plane to the museum which holds the original?

 

[rxh]

HI Richard.

I remember that plane well..........but I hadn't remembered the little hammer based around a Yorkshire T-fitting.

Did you offer the plane to the museum which holds the original?

Yes, t' Yorkshire pattern plane adjustment hammer. I have made a few of them - all for Yorkshiremen

No, I have kept the plane as part of my growing collection of ancient plane reproductions - I think there are about ten of them now. Some people like to try making shavings with them and I think this brings history alive.

 

[AndyT]

That's such a good idea, that Yorkshire hammer. I hope you won't mind if a soft southerner makes a sort of "homage" version...

 

[Mike G]

.....Yes, t' Yorkshire pattern plane adjustment hammer. I have made a few of them.....

What are the heads made of?

 

[rxh]

That's such a good idea, that Yorkshire hammer. I hope you won't mind if a soft southerner makes a sort of "homage" version...

Absolutely no objection, Andy. Some folk pay hundreds of pounds for a plane adjustment hammer but a very effective one can be made for almost nowt

 

[rxh]

.....Yes, t' Yorkshire pattern plane adjustment hammer. I have made a few of them.....

What are the heads made of?

One face is brass and the other is a hardwood - I have used hornbeam (stained black), apple and boxwood.

 

[Dr.Al]

Did you offer the plane to the museum which holds the original?

Looks like someone called Stewart O. Would donated one:

 

[Mike G]

It would have been so easy to display them both the same way around........

 

[Cabinetman]

Yes that was my immediate thought too.