Let's see...

Ellis, Denning, Hasluck, Jones, Nicholson. All these guys had differing
opinions way back then. Seems the original Galoots had a leg up on us when
it came to kicking ideas around.

The interesting part is trying to determine whence and where someones
opinion came from.

Gary

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Martin Harriman [SMTP:martinh@a...
> Sent:	Monday, December 04, 2000 12:15 PM
> To:	Roberts, Gary R
> Cc:	oldtools@w...
> Subject:	RE: Of Rabbet & Fillister Planes
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Roberts, Gary R wrote:
> 
> > Nichael raises an important observation. Some badger planes were not
> outfitted
> > with the extra apertunances. The user could buy the plain Kia brand that
> > resembled a jack plane with a skewed iron.
> >
> > gary
> >
> 
> FWIW, the badger plane illustrated in Ellis is of the Kia (tm) variety:
> plain as dirt, with a skewed rabbet-on-one-side iron.  As far as Ellis
> (carpenter and joiner extraordinaire) is concerned, the plane's only use
> is cleaning up Huge Monster Rabbets which you cut by some other means
> (probably firmer chisels, hackety hack).  So I wouldn't be surprised if
> they tended to see relatively little use.
> 
> He expects you'll be working mostly in Honduras mahoganny, to judge from
> his comments, with forays into woods both harder and softer, e.g. oak,
> black walnut, and teak.  Considering the scale he's working at, this is
> kind of scary.
> 
>   --Martin