Jim Koepke
01-10-2011, 12:11 PM
After a few attempts trying old broken planes as chisel planes with dismal results, the chisel plane idea wasn't given much thought.
While working on a shelf unit in the shop yesterday, some of my dados needed to be opened a bit. To get all the way to the end of the stopped dados, the noses had to be removed from the #98 & 99. While hunched down over my work, it came to me that these were being used as a type of chisel plane. Then it occurred to me that any plane with a removable mouth could have some of the aspects of a chisel plane without the ability to get into the tight places.
Maybe the chisel plane was born of a craftsman dropping a block plane and after it was broken in half, they tried using it without the toe.
jtk
While working on a shelf unit in the shop yesterday, some of my dados needed to be opened a bit. To get all the way to the end of the stopped dados, the noses had to be removed from the #98 & 99. While hunched down over my work, it came to me that these were being used as a type of chisel plane. Then it occurred to me that any plane with a removable mouth could have some of the aspects of a chisel plane without the ability to get into the tight places.
Maybe the chisel plane was born of a craftsman dropping a block plane and after it was broken in half, they tried using it without the toe.
jtk