On 8/08/2019 5:08 am, Bill Ghio via OldTools wrote:
> When we travel we like to check out local museums as they are always
interesting and of course focused on the local area. No surprise, I always
gravitate to any tool related content and am usually amused by the misidentified
tools. Holyhead, Wales, has a small but well done Maritime Museum. In their
display of shipwright’s tool everything was well identified except for item #10.
This is what they said about it:
> 
> “Very often shipwrights made their own tools for specific jobs. This crude
user-made plane is one such tool…but what was it used for?”
> 
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/77280442@N.../48482421007/in/dateposted/
> 
> Unfortunately I could not handle it or see any other view than the one
pictured, so scant information to go on. My best guess is a very large spill
plane. Any ideas?

A spill plane?

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Peter Marquis-Kyle