A scrub plane, also traditionally known
as a 'Hogg Plane',
'Hogging Plane' and
'Roughing Plane', is a woodwork plane designed for the fast removal
of lots of wood / wood shavings.
A scrub plane is an agressive plane used where there is the need to
remove a lot of wood quickly where it is not possible or efficient
to cut down with a saw.
The scrub plane is traditionally used for preparing rough, warped or
distorted timber or where there is a need to reduce the thickness or
width of a piece of timber.
A scrub plane is a narrow plane of
smoothing plane
length with a very
open mouth to allow lots of shavings to quickly flow through.
The scrub plane has a more stout blade with a cutting edge which is
rounded in order to help cope with the rougher work.
A scrub plane is a single-iron plane, meaning it doesn't have an accompanying
cap iron.
It is the combination of the blade setup and the open mouth which makes
the scrub plane suited to carrying out the rougher work and removing
lots of stock quickly.
Due to the agressive nature of this plane, it leaves a rough finish
which is then worked with a
jack plane
in the next step to flattening and smoothing a board.
A scrub plane is sometimes referred to as one of the
'bench plane'
range.
A scrub plane is also useful for creating wood shavings for tinder
in a woodburner or an outdoor garden fire pit.
The first scrub planes were wooden scrub planes. There have been wooden
scrub planes since the 1700's and no doubt before.
See the Wooden Scrub Planes
page for more info.
The first mainstream iron scrub plane was the
Stanley 40 Scrub Plane
first produced in the 1890's, produced for about 60 years.
There was a similar
Record Scrub Plane
produced for a brief time in the 1930's-1940's.
Apart from these, I don't believe there was a mainstream iron scrub
plane produced until around the early 2000's when the
Veritas Scrub Plane
was produced.
This left a 40 year period where no new mainstream iron scrub plane
was produced. This may well have been because of a combination of:
- there were an abundance of secondhand wooden and iron scrubs planes at this time.
- woodworkers worked out they could adapt an existing plane / plane blade
to form a custom made scrub plane.
- there was a lot of affordable machinery / planers available to buy.
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