Hello Wolfgang

Thanks for the links.

I was surprised at how many variations there are. My knowledge of French
runs to about a dozen words, but my knowledge of $ =E2=82=AC =C2=A3
signs is broad. The value of some of these planes was surprising, and
disheartening at the same time.

The plane is not mine. I picked up a kit of tools that will be sold on
behalf of the owner by the Hand Tool Preservation Association of
Australia, the local Melbourne tool club. I had hoped I might be able to
buy it, but that=E2=80=99s looking unlikely now!

Some questions for anyone on the list who has used or knows how to use
the plane. The brass half round =E2=80=98guide=E2=80=99 for want of a
better word, I=E2=80=99d like to know how it works. Why is it this
shape? Is the plane primarily used to run a groove parallel to a half
round shape already run?

The smaller plane that I was calling a spar plane, is called a
Speichenhobel in the catalogue link you sent me. Speichenhobel,
translates via Babel Fish to =E2=80=98Spoke Plane=E2=80=99.

Mick Dowling Melbourne

On 6/10/10 8:44 PM, "Jordan, Wolfgang"  wrote:

>> Mick found a nice plane:
>>>> http://picasaweb.google.com/110606900822928930073/CircularRebatePl-
>>>> aneAndSparP
>> lane#
>>> Mick,
>> there is a very interesting entry with lots of pictures and
>> information in a
> French forum about carriagemaker's grooving planes:
>> http://outils-anciens.xooit.fr/t33-Les-bouvets-de-carrossier.htm
>> You will find a plane just like yours on page 3 (the one that sold
>> for 1600
> $). There were a lot of different types in Europe, and the one you
> found was made in Germany and is known as "Schweriner Nuthobel"
> (grooving plane "Schwerin" pattern). Unfortunately I do not know much
> about these planes other than they were obviously made in the city of
> Schwerin (Northern Germany) by one or a group of makers.
>> Planes like the smaller one were made by different companies and up
>> to more
> recent times. Here's a page from a 1940 catalog by Friedrich Ott,
> maker of the famous Frankenplanes ("Frankenhobel") ;-)
>> http://www.holzwerken.de/museum/hersteller/kataloge/ott2_47.jpg
>> Wolfgang
>
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