Narrow antique wood plane, profile plane or rebate plane

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Narrow antique wood plane, profile plane or rebate plane

• Manufacturer: PD
• Date of manufacture: Late 19th - early 20th century

Description
Always beautiful for decoration. This wood plane, better known as rabbet plane or profile plane. These types of planes were formerly used by the carpenter to plane rebates, among other things.

Beautiful antique condition.

Condition
This rebate plane is in a good vintage condition with normal traces of use and age-related traces of wear. Photos are part of the description.

Dimensions

• Height: 13.5 cm
• Length: 25.7 cm
• Thickness: 2.4 cm

A block plane is a small woodworking hand plane which typically has the blade bedded at a lower angle than other planes, with the bevel up. It is designed to cut end grain and is typically small enough to be used with one hand.

 "A Block Plane was first made to meet the demand for a Plane which could be easily held in one hand while planing across the grain, particularly the ends of boards, etc. This latter work many Carpenters call 'Blocking in', hence the name 'Block' Plane." Tradition also claims that the block plane gets its name from its traditional use to level and remove cleaver marks from butchers' blocks that were built with the end grain facing up.

A block plane is frequently used for paring end grain. This is possible because a block plane has its blade set at a shallow bed angle, allowing the blade to slice through end grain more efficiently; furthermore, for this to work, the plane is frequently held at an angle sometimes as much as 45 degrees to the direction of travel, so that the cutting edge slices the wood fibers as they pass from one end of the cutting edge to the other.

A block plane has many other uses in woodworking. Typically, it is used for cleaning up components by removing thin shavings of wood in order to make a component fit within fine tolerances. Chamfering (angling square edges) and removing glue lines are some of the other uses woodworkers find for the block plane.

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