plane
Report a Mistake- Date Made 1699
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- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer --
- Object Number 988.77.31
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- Category Tools and equipment for materials
- Sub-category Woodworking tools and equipment
- Department History
- Museum CMH
- Earliest 1699/01/01
- Latest 1666/12/31
- Materials Iron, Fruit tree, White beech
- Measurements Height 18.0 cm, Length 46.4 cm, Width 23.0 cm
- Related activity Carpentry
- Caption Planes
- Additional Information The plane, which is used principally for shaping (or sizing), fitting and finishing, consists of a chisel-like cutting iron fixed into a wooden stock or iron sole. Its invention is said to have been the most important advance in woodworking tools of the last two thousand years. The plane's earliest known use was by Roman joiners at the beginning of the Christian Era. Excerpt from exhibition text: On the Cutting Edge: The Arthur Pascal Collection of Woodworking Hand Tools, December 1991 to October 2005.
- Caption Plough Plane
- Additional Information It is difficult to overlook the date "1699" carved into this plane because it is so large. Excerpt from exhibition text: On the Cutting Edge: The Arthur Pascal Collection of Woodworking Hand Tools, December 1991 to October 2005.