moulding plane
Report a Mistake- Place of Use Continent - Europe (tbv), Country - France (tbv)
- Category Tools and equipment for materials
- Sub-category Woodworking tools and equipment
- Department History
- Museum CMH
- Earliest 1700/01/01
- Latest 1799/12/31
- Materials Wood, Fruit tree, Iron
- Measurements Height 14.5 cm, Length 28.3 cm, Width 6.5 cm
- Related activity Carpentry
- Caption Moulding Plane
- Additional Information An infinite variety of moulding planes exist because plane makers made them to fit their customer's special needs for mouldings of different shapes. Excerpt from exhibition text: On the Cutting Edge: The Arthur Pascal Collection of Woodworking Hand Tools, December 1991 to October 2005.
- 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.