Wooden Lambs Tongue Sash Moulding Planes

wooden lambs tongue sash moulding plane
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Review By: I.Ball

Manufacturer: Various

Tool Type: Wooden Planes

Plane Type: Lambs Tongue Sash Moulding


           

The old British wooden lambs tongue sash moulding planes had a hardwood body, a steel plane cutter and a hardwood wedge.

The planes were nearly always made from beech as this was the hardwood that was commonly available in Britain.

The wooden lambs tongue sash moulding planes were made in a variety of widths.

A wooden lambs tongue sash moulding plane cutter has a cutting edge profile which mirrors the sole of the plane.



old wooden lambs tongue moulding planes

The plane has a window to one side of the cutter and above the cutter to allow the shavings to escape as the wood is planed.

There have been hundreds of different wooden plane manufacturers of wooden lambs tongue planes since 1700. Below is a list of some of the wooden plane manufacturers:

Atkins
Brown
Buck
Burton
Cogdell
Cox
Dibb
Gabriel
Green
Greenslade
Griffiths
Higgs
Madox
Marples
Mathieson
Moseley
Moon
Nurse
Preston (Edward)
Varvill
..many others

old wooden planes - lambs tongue

The manufacturer's mark (if present) can virtually always be found on the front nose of the plane. If the plane is quite mucky or you hadn't realised, this is the place to look to identify who made it.

Most planes also have an owner's name or many owner's names stamped into the front of the plane; these can often be easily spotted as they have been stamped more than once on the plane.

If you wish to delve deeper there are a few books out there to help identify the age of the plane(s).

The authority of these books (at the time of writing this) has to be Jane Rees 'British Planemakers - 4th Edition'. The 'British Planemakers fom 1700 - Third Edition' is also good if you come across a secondhand copy.


wooden plane lambs tongue profile

Manufactured Dates

<1700 - 1950's>





















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