Gary Katsanis wrote:
>Very unusual - it looks like there might be a fence on the right 
>cheek, if you hold the handle facing away from the bench.
>
>Both irons are narrow.  Could it be a dado plane of some kind?

1] The iron whose top is pointing toward the viewer seems to be 
notably narrower than
the other iron.  (Also, obviously, only one blade engages the wood at a time).

Maybe something like a scrub/jack pane combined with a jointer?

I..e. make a first pass to hog off the worst of the rough stuff,
then simply flip the plane on its side and do the clean up?
(Notice that if this is the case, then the "extra" handle would be pointing
away from the user on the second/cleanup pass).
(Also, something like this might explain the large size.)

2] Thinking a little more about a "combo two-pass" plane of this size.
I sure wish we could see what the soles look like.

Maybe it's a large size cornice plane.  One side --with the narrower 
blade-- makes an initial cut
to do remove a lot of the initial work.  Then the second pass does 
the finish work.
Something like this might help explain why there might be the fence 
that Gary suggests.

Just some early morning thoughts.
Nichael


>Gary Katsanis
>Albion NY, USA
>(before my second cup of coffee)
>
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject:        Re: [OldTools] Strangest plane I've seen
>Date:   Sun, 04 Jan 2015 06:01:29 -0800
>From:   branson 
>To:     oldtools@r...
>
>
>
>I've seen a lot of wooden planes, but this one from Croatia takes the
>cake.  At first it looked like a simple jointer, but then I noticed two
>totes at right angles to each other...  Then the two blades...
>
>http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Tonnellerie_%C3%A0_
Kumrovec%2C_Croatie.jpg">http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Tonn
ellerie_%C3%A0_Kumrovec%2C_Croatie.jpg
>
>Mike in Sacto
>
>
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