Making Traditional Wooden Planes

Author: John M. Whelan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781879335691
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
John Whelan unlocks the fascinating secrets of an almost lost art: wooden planemaking. For those curious about the ingenious ways of the craft, this book lays out clear, step-by-step instructions that will enable any woodworker to make a plane. Each chapter (covering 20 different types of planes and spokeshaves) is fully illustrated by the author's line drawings. In addition, there are chapters on the history and alternative methods of planemaking, making plane irons, and the tuning and using of wooden planes. Every chapter that details the construction of a particular plane starts with a photograph of the plane that has been made by the author. As you would expect from Mr. Whelan, this book is the finest and most complete work on the making of wooden planes in print. The reader will enjoy it even if he never puts blade to wood. Should he make a plane or two, he will find Making Traditional Wooden Planes most satisfying

Making and Mastering Wood Planes

Author: David Finck
Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
ISBN: 9781402720222
Category : Planes (Hand tools)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Teaching you how to make a classic plane yourself (it takes only a day or so) and how to use it in a refined manner.

Traditional Wooden Handplanes

Author: Scott Wynn
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1607654989
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 430

Book Description
Learn how to make, modify, restore, and use traditional wooden handplanes. Discover the different types and how to use them to their best advantage; how to tune up a new plane for peak performance; and how to make your own set of planes.

The Handplane Book

Author: Garrett Hack
Publisher: Taunton Press
ISBN: 9781561587124
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
Hack reveals the rich heritage of this classic tool by presenting a treasure trove of information about handplanes, focusing on the 19th and early 20th centuries. 175 photos. 152 drawings.

Wooden Planes and How to Make Them

Author: David G. Perch
Publisher: Algrove Publishing
ISBN: 9781894572491
Category : Planes (Hand tools)
Languages : en
Pages : 182

Book Description

A Guide to the Makers of American Wooden Planes

Author: Thomas L. Elliott
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493054015
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 456

Book Description
With its initial publication in 1983, A Guide to the Makers of American Wooden Planes profoundly transformed the emphasis and direction of tool collecting. After several years of meticulous research, Thomas L. Elliott has completely redesigned, revised, and expanded this fifth edition to include entries and information accumulated since the fourth edition. The heart of this guide is the alphabetical directory of plane makers and dealers. This fifth edition now includes: 4590 biographical entries; 6160 imprint illustrations; 3030 wedge outlines; and over 3000 individual ratings for judging relative scarcity and value. Also included are sections providing insights helpful in buying and selling planes, an illustrated glossary of plane terms and styles, and an extensive bibliography for further research. This book is useful to both the beginner and the advanced collector, to historians and genealogists, and to all other with an interest in the subject.

How to Make Wooden Planes

Author: David G. Perch
Publisher: Lee Valley Tools
ISBN: 9780969101901
Category : Planes (Hand tools)
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description

The Wooden Plane

Author: John M. Whelen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1931626677
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 518

Book Description
A comprehensive reference that has been called "a work of clarity and imagination so influential it virtually defines its subject," this book describes, illustrates, and classifies all types of wooden planes from the common to the rare and unusual -- tracing their development and explaining their use. Included are both American and English planes, and also French, Dutch, German, Japanese and Chinese. Over 500 pages long, with more than 1,000 illustrations, it also includes: Chapters that describe and illustrate over 90 simple and 300 complex molding profiles; a description and explanation of the planes used by specific trades: the Cooper, Sashmaker, Coachmaker, Wheelwright, Planemaker, Organ Builder, Staircase Builder, Basketmaker, Rulemaker, Chairmaker, and Patternmaker; an Appendix that outlines a system for naming and classifying molding profiles, and another for identifying and classifying any plane based on its physical shape.

Goodman's British Planemakers

Author: Jane Rees
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1931626480
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 699

Book Description
This new edition of the classic reference British Planemakers from 1700 has been completely rewritten, with over 200 pages of new information. Online research tools haven enabled much greater insight into family connections of planemakers, family and business continuities, and the discovery of previously unknown planemakers. Confirmation that planemakers were working in the late 1600s, in fact, inspired the new edition’s title, Goodman’s British Planemakers. The biographic directory covers more than 2400 planemakers and includes 2250 maker's mark illustrations. Like its predecessors, the new edition traces the development of British planemaking, but far more extensively, now confirming that planemakers moved around the country to a much greater extent than previously realized, and identifying several new family planemaking dynasties. The book includes chapters on the planemaking trade and its practices, descriptions and illustrations of the many types of planes and their evolution, and provincial planemaking, as well as sections on apprentice records, trade marks, and a complete index. An absolutely invaluable reference.

A Field Guide to the Makers of American Wooden Planes

Author: Thomas L. Elliott
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781931626149
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
Any collector who has wished he could carry the Guide to the Makers of American Wooden Planes in his pocket at flea markets, auctions, or estate sales will be happy with this new Field Guide. Tom Elliott has included all the imprints (about 4500) from the fourth edition and has added over 550 new imprints. He has also provided all the star ratings shown before, as well as notations of the names on the planes, whether the name was for a maker or a hardware dealer, and the geographical locations and approximate dates for each entry.