Review By: I.Ball
Category: Old Wooden Planes
Extra Info: What is a Scrub Plane? Scrub Plane Videos
Manufacturer: Various
Tool Type: Wooden Planes
Plane Type: Scrub
This style of wooden scrub plane was used for rougher work to prepare
the timber for the finer smoothing work.
As the plane is used for rough work, it is also known as a 'roughing plane'.
The defining features of these wooden scrub planes are they usually
have a single blade, the blade has a curved cutting edge, and the plane
has a big mouth. The large mouth allows lots of wood shavings to pass through
the mouth quickly and easily.
Note: The style of wooden plane doesn't matter, what counts are the
characteristics above.
The scrub plane is useful for planing down a board which is too wide
to conventionally rip with a hand saw; this process used to be known
by the term "hogging".
This style of wooden scrub plane is a European / continental design.
This plane design continued to be popular, particularly in Europe through
the 20th century and continues to be so today with plane makers such
as the German maker, ECE, producing a wide range of this style of wooden
plane.
On the whole, the British plane makers plane designs of pre-1950's were totally different
to the rest of Europe however this continental style of wooden horned
plane was introduced as part of some British makers plane ranges (1800's - pre-1950's).
The scrub plane was also produced in iron form with the
Stanley 40 scrub plane
and is produced today in the form of the
Veritas scrub plane.
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