wooden bodied grooving plane

[Joe Bailey]

Of my hundreds of hoarded hand planes, only about 20 or 30 are woodies -- all incidentally acquired.

My question is: is there such a thing as a dedicated grooving plane for drawer grooves (and is this one), or is it only the orphaned half of a T&G pair?

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Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this.

[David Weaver]

It's half of a pair.

[Joe Bailey]

Thanks David.

Would it work for the purpose of cutting drawer bottom grooves?

[David Weaver]

it'll cut too deep as it is. You might want to fill the gap partially with something temporarily, maybe by tacking a strip in with CA glue.

Of course, you could donate the iron to a cheap shop made plane like in the drawer groove plane thread above, below, wherever it is..

[Steve Voigt]

Of my hundreds of hoarded hand planes, only about 20 or 30 are woodies -- all incidentally acquired.

My question is: is there such a thing as a dedicated grooving plane for drawer grooves (and is this one), or is it only the orphaned half of a T&G pair?


Dedicated grooving planes definitely do exist, though yours is half a pair. Gary Roberts did a post (http://toolemerablog.typepad.com/toolemera/2012/12/a-sargent-269-drawer-bottom-plane.html) on his Sargent drawer bottom plane, and I more or less modeled mine (http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?205868-Grooving-drawer-bottom-plane-design-question) on the Sargent.