I’ve spent a bit of time looking at tools in flea markets, antique shops, and
museums. I’ve seen a good number of wooden planes but never one to match this
one.


http://hyvelbenk.wordpress.com/






Most of the wooden planes I’ve seen are very plain and utilitarian. Usually they
are pretty beat up too.

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Wow!  What a load of great stuff!  I think I know which plane you're 
talking
about, but I was captured by all the planing benches on this site.  
Jumpin'
Jiminy!

Gotta get around to making some hold fasts like the shouldered versions 
here.
They look really useful and well thought out.

Mike in Sacto

Firstly, we need to invite both these guys to our group!

An interesting note:
http://hyvelbenk.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/wooden-bench-hook-from-vasa-
ship/">http://hyvelbenk.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/wooden-bench-hook-from-vasa-
ship/

In this post the Roald Renmælmo discusses høvelbenk and skottsbenk.
Benk means bench in Norwegian and høvel refers to a plane. If I
understand correctly, planebench (or more correctly in English
planningbench) is commonly used like we would say workbench.
Interestingly, there is another form of jointing bench called a
skottsbenk or Scottish/Scots bench (unless the translation is wrong).
These roughly resemble an enormous wooden saw vise and seem to be used
roughly similar to horses for jointing work.

For more info on the form of Norwegian planes, check out this article
on the sister blog (English):
http://skottbenk.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/why-old-wooden-planes-in-
norway-look-the-way-they-do/">http://skottbenk.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/why-old-
wooden-planes-in-norway-look-the-way-they-do/

There's a whole slew of excellent Scandinavian blogs linked from both,
I'm going to be unproductive for awhile.

Brian J.M. Rytel

On 04/19/2014 07:36 PM, Brian Rytel wrote:
> >Firstly, we need to invite both these guys to our group!
Yeah!  I wonder if any of these guys have any information on 
coopering... Some of the planes are quite a bit like Russian wooden 
planes, and I have been just about completely unable to find anything 
about Russian cooper's tools.
> >If I understand correctly, planebench (or more correctly in English
> planningbench) is commonly used like we would say workbench.
Yes, it's a planing bench.  St. Roy did a piece on the planing bench 
years ago.   A very useful item, and you *can* use a planing bench for  
just about everything you do on a carpenter's workbench, especially if 
it's one of the versions with a leg vise.  I learned about the planing 
bench first from the Viet-Namese carpenters and shipwrights I worked 
with, and I've done just about everything with one or the other of the 
planing benches I have.  They take up little space and are easily moved, 
but very stable for work.

The widest one I worked with was 12 inches wide; the narrowest is 8 
inches wide.  One was 3 1/2 inches thick, the other a dimensional 4 
inches thick.

Mike in Sacto