rounder plane
Report a Mistake- Date Made 1699-1699
- Event --
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer James Howarth
- Object Number 988.77.572
- Place of Origin Continent - Europe, Country - United Kingdom, England, Municipality - Sheffield
- Place of Use Continent - Europe (tbv), Country - United Kingdom, England (tbv), Municipality - Sheffield (tbv), Township / District - South Yorkshire (tbv)
- Category Tools and equipment for materials
- Sub-category Woodworking tools and equipment
- Department History
- Museum CMH
- Earliest 1600/01/01
- Latest 1699/12/31
- Inscription (iron/fer) JAMES HOWART. WARRANTED CAST STEEL SHEFFIELD
- Materials Steel, Maple
- Measurements Height 9.8 cm, Length 22.9 cm, Width 6.6 cm
- Related activity Joinery, Wheelwrighting
- Caption Rounder Plane
- Additional Information This type of plane was used for rounding rake or fork handles, trenails and dowels, or for putting a round taper on ladder rungs, milk stools and spoke tongues. 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.