paul womack wrote:

>
> Rabot debout - small plane of block makers - Shruffhobel
>
> SMALL PLANE OF BLOCK MAKERS!!
>
> Can anyone more linguistically advantaged than me comment on the French
> or German names here?

I have now found the

MILITARY DICTIONARY

German - English - French

by Sir George Floyd Duckett, 1848, which has;

 > Harthobel, m.
 >
 > Plane for cleaning-off hard wood, in which
 > the angle of the bed is at 30° with a line perpendicular to the sole.
 >
 > Rabot dont l'inclinaison du fer avec la perpendiculaire à la
 > semelle est de 30 degrés; (rabot debout).

Looking interesting.

  BugBear