Thread: Is this an old hand plane? Or not?

Looks a bit well built and technical for a woodworking tool! Maybe for leather work, just a guess though!

What's it feel like in the hand? Especially your left hand

Maybe for leather work, just a guess though!

Thanks! I'll search in that area to see what I found.

What's it feel like in the hand? Especially your left hand

Ummm.. I was not able to pick it up yet. I'm not sure I understood about the left hand... what should I try to look?

Thanks!
Mariano

It was just that it seemed to have a lot of adjusters etc in the way of a comfortable grip.

Nup, not a leather working tool I'm sure (I'm a cobbler among other things)

Maybe homemade.

Imagine its a woodwork tool. I'm pretty shore it would work on timber, from what I see in the picture. Cutting rebates. From what I see the bottom bar slides, resembling a fence....so you can adjust the width of the rebate a bit.

Not sure, but it could be for rabbet work but not for wood, but for metal castings and "rabbets" in them.

Just a thought, it would have been used for remove machining marks and smoothen them like they used hand scrapers for metal surfaces. Very smooth and true surfaces were done in that manner, so why not to apply handplane principle for similar task. The structure of the tool is very solid and it has steel reinforced rear handle, so it could be for such a special task, to hand fit mating metal surfaces really snugly together. For non-work hardening metals, most likely. But all this is just guessing and not really knowing it.

Very interesting device anyway .

sumu