Thread: Now this is a handplane!

I'd love to see them do that with a piece of jarrah!

I think it's actually a two-hand plane

#7 ? Not really, it's not a jointer, more of a super-smoothing plane.

Hi everyone

I was once waiting for an aircraft out of Lukla in the mountains of Nepal, and wandered around the village, as you do, ending up at a site where the locals were building a tourist lodge out of local wood.

The chippies had set up a large contraption which looked like an alluvial goldmining water race, but which was really an enormous woodplane captive in runners inside the chute, and which had large handles either side of the plane.

I saw them planing up a beam about twenty foot long.
As I recall, the beam was about 15 x 6 inches.
One man each side of the chute, and another pulling a rope from the front.
The plane position was fixed except for sliding, and the wood was adjustable in position.

The actual plane as I recall looked much like a super large jointer.
It worked extremely well, and I was impressed

I wish I had taken a photo.

Oh well, to substitite, here is a piccie of chippies making a house from solid pine in Listvyanka Siberia. The wood is not nailed, but rather pinned by long steel vertical rods at corners.

cheerio, mike

I would have liked to see those Nepalese carpenters.

There is an illustration in a book (I've forgotton which one and most of the books are packed away) that shows a large plane that uses a broad-axe as the blade and is drawn by a horse.

Originally Posted by seanz

...and most of the books are packed away...

And another big quake an hour ago. You Christchurch residents must be just about ready for straight-jackets

Cheers, and hoping all is well, Vann.

Don't know about the straight-jacket but a padded room sounds pretty good.

All planes still on shelves!

It's the little things......