fillister plane
Report a Mistake- Date Made 1842
- Event --
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Bensen & McCall
- Object Number 988.77.111
- Place of Origin Continent - North America, Country - United States of America, Municipality - Albany
- Place of Use Continent - North America (tbv), Country - United States of America (tbv), Municipality - Albany (tbv)
- Category Tools and equipment for materials
- Sub-category Woodworking tools and equipment
- Department History
- Museum CMH
- Earliest 1842/01/01
- Latest 1842/12/31
- Materials Metal, Beech
- Measurements Height 12.5 cm, Length 24.2 cm, Width 8.0 cm
- Related activity Carpentry
- Caption Moving-fillister Plane
- Additional Information Carpenters and joiners used the moving fillister for cutting rebates, rectangular recesses or steps of varying widths on the outer edges of work-pieces. 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.