Seeking help to identify four wood planes

**IanW** · 25th January 2013, 08:38 AM

Missed a couple, Paul.

The gadget that looks like a 3-pin plug with a drill sticking out of it looks like hole cutter, of I type I haven't seen before. Looks like the cutters might be adjustable over a small range, but can't see if or how that happens from the pic., so maybe it's a fixed diameter.

The last wingwong is a two-shafted marking gauge or mortise gauge. You set the points so that one marks one side of a mortise, & the other does the opposite side simultaneously. The flaw in this design is that the points aren't in line, so you can't scribe neatly to a shoulder line. Some folks don't care about it & simply scribe past the shouler lines. Both by natural inclination, & because I was taught by a fussy old galoot who went ballistic if there were any visible layout lines left on a piece, I just can't do that!

The same school over-cuts half-blind dovetails & the like. It minimises the danger of break-out when chiseling waste, but looks like poor workmanship to me. However, I'm not trying to make my living at it, so I can afford to be fussy.....

Cheers,

**woodybuzz** · 25th January 2013, 07:53 PM

Guys, what can I say except a capitalised THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!

All of the help and information that you have offered has been fantastic. I greatly appreciate it.

It is also very refreshing to visit a website with a forum where the members aren't continuously insulting each other.

A sincere thank you.

**woodybuzz** · 26th January 2013, 10:05 AM

for IanW

you seemed slightly interested in the hole cutter

from what i can tell it IS adjustable

I've added a couple more photos of it for you

thanks again for all of your help - especially the "wingwong" - i had no idea what it was.

**IanW** · 26th January 2013, 02:00 PM

Originally Posted by woodybuzz

for IanW

you seemed slightly interested in the hole cutter

from what i can tell it IS adjustable

I've added a couple more photos of it for you

thanks again for all of your help - especially the "wingwong" - i had no idea what it was.

More 'curious' than interested, woody_b. It looks like it would be a bit fussy to set to an exact diameter, and not super robust, but it could be useful to you once in a while. I think I'm better off with my full set of Forstner bits.

I'm certainly not clever, just been hanging about a long time, so (when my memory works!), it's not hard.

However, every now & then someone puts up a tool that has me totally flummoxed, then someone (like Lightwood, who really is clever!) will not only tell us what it is, but when it was made, by whom & much more information than my small head can carry.....

Cheers,

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