compass plane
Report a Mistake- Date Made 1878-1903
- Event --
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Stanley Rule and Level Co.
- Object Number 988.77.455
- Place of Origin Continent - North America, Country - United States of America
- Category Tools and equipment for materials
- Sub-category Woodworking tools and equipment
- Department History
- Museum CMH
- Earliest 1878/01/01
- Latest 1903/12/31
- Materials Steel, Iron
- Measurements Height 14.0 cm, Length 26.0 cm, Width 6.1 cm
- Related activity Joinery
- Caption Circular Plane
- Additional Information The Stanley Rule and Level Company called its metal version of the compass plane a "circular plane". 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.