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270463 "Ed O'" <edo@e...> 2020‑04‑08 Re: Old Bony
I sent a reply to this earlier, but it appears to have gotten lost.

Wide jack plane size tongue & groove planes are plank match planes.  Normal
molding plane size t&g planes are board match planes.

If you google Chapin plank match plane you will see some examples, or just plank
match plane.

The wear strips look like regular cow bone to me.  It does not have the visual
characteristics that would make me think ivory or even whale bone.

I see this form  with some regularity around the North East and always kind of
assumed that they were used in some aspect of boat building.  In looking at
Whelan's The Wooden Plane book I see no mention of this though.    Just for
thick stock.

Ed O'

-----Original Message-----
From: OldTools [mailto:oldtools-bounces@s...] On Behalf Of Claudio DeLorenzi
Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 1:03 PM
To: scottg@s...
Cc: porch 
Subject: Re: [OldTools] Old Bony

Holy Crap Scott, sure that isn’t IVORY?  Can you check with a hand lens?
Claudio

On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 10:43 AM scott grandstaff 
wrote:

> ?
>
>    A local craftsman of expert skill could have been enlisted, but the 
> arms and screws do not look casual.
>
> http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/oldtools/tonguepla
> ne5.JPG
>
>   I'm sure the bone lining was all about "the last one didn't last 
> long enough, this time we are making sure it holds up"
>   And man they weren't kidding! Look how much bone there is. Even the 
> top of the tongue is paved in bone.
>
>
> http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/oldtools/tonguepla
> ne4.JPG
>
> So again custom factory plane shop,
> or maybe ordered from the factory plain, and then locally inlaid after 
> the plane was made?
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