Review By: I.Ball
Category: Old Wooden Planes
Manufacturer: Various
Tool Type: Wooden Planes
Plane Type: Grooving
The old British wooden grooving plane is a wooden plane with a steel
skate on the side, a plough plane blade(s) and a wooden wedge.
The wooden grooving plane is a simple plane used for making grooves.
This type of plane used to be advertised as a drawer bottom grooving
plane which gives an indication of one use for the plane.
There are two types of wooden grooving plane, one with a small adjustable
sliding
fence
underneath the plane and one without the fence.
The sliding fence is adjusted by releasing the screws underneath the
fence, sliding the fence to the desired position and then securing the
screws to hold the fence in position.
The grooving planes without the fence can also be paired with a matching
wooden tongue plane to form a pair of
tongue and groove planes.
The plane can be used with a series of plane cutters of varying widths. The plane
cutters have a groove running upwards from the bevel which is used to locate with
the metal skate.
The wooden wedge is used to secure the blade in position.
There are many, many makers of the non-adjustable grooving plane, with a smaller
amount of adjustable grooving plane manufacturers, below is a list of some of the
makers:
Emir
Griffiths
Marples (William)
Mathieson
(Things To Look Out For)
When buying an old wooden grooving plane it is worth being aware of the following:
Woodworm: if the plane has live woodworm it would be very prudent
to treat the plane in order to protect any other wooden items in the vicinity of
the wooden plane.
Jammed Wedge: if the wedge can't be removed then the plane is non-functional.
Replaced Wedge: a good replacement wedge should be fine, a poor
replacement wedge may result in the blade not being able to be secured properly
and may devalue the plane if the plane has any real value.
Cracked Wedge: if the wedge has a hairline crack then there will
be an increased chance the wedge will break if the wedge ever became jammed.
Pitted Blade: if the cutting area of the blade is heavily pitted
this will make sharpening the blade to a good edge more tricky or if really bad
then almost impossible.
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Drawer Plane
Drawer Bottom Grooving Plane
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Groover Plane
Groove Plane
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