Thread: T shaped rebate plane

Originally Posted by IanW

Hmmm, to quote another British writer (G. B. Shaw): "One Englishman can't open his mouth without making another despise him"....

I experienced some language parochialism in the UK but it wasn't until I went to Italy and heard a villager despising the way a person from a nearby village spoke the same local dialect that I though how ridiculous this was. The distance between the two villages was less than a kilometre. The two persons involved were of the same socio-economic status (farm labourers) one just didn't like the way the other one spoke.

Originally Posted by IanW

I quoted Oscar Wilde earlier: "Two countries divided by a common language".....

Hmmm, to quote another British writer (G. B. Shaw): "One Englishman can't open his mouth without making another despise him"....

Perceptive that, in this context, you should quote two Irish men.

... Of course, Graeme, you are probably well aware that nobody could "spelll" before Samuel Johnson tried to impose some order on English. Up 'til his dictionary you just wrote a word as you were used to pronouncing it. He came relatively late on the scene (1750), and judging by the way Cook spells in his journal, it took a while for "correct" spelling to filter down to the masses! ...

I have an obsession, Ian, in reading history written by the guys who were there, rather than by historians. Stuff like the journals of Cook, Banks, Flinders, d'Entrecasteaux, Baudin, etc, and have noted such eccentricities.

In their cruise up the East Coast of Australia to Cooktown, Cook had very few sightings of Aborigines, who presumably observed them from behind a tree, but they did note the smoke from many campfires and routinely counted the "smokes" as a proxy for the population density. Capt James Cook, a native of Yorkshire, in his journal, noted the number of "smooks" observed. But the journals of Banks and Parkinson (artist), both from London, recorded the number of "smoaks" observed. Seems "smoke" had not yet evolved.

Originally Posted by BobL

... but it wasn't until I went to Italy and heard a villager despising the way a person from a nearby village spoke the same local dialect that I though how ridiculous this was. ...

Have a varient of the same issue. Whenever we are in the UK I have to visit wife's family members in a village less than an hours drive NW of London, and I find their dialect totally incomprehensible. The village name, Podington, is pronounced something like "Po'in'on" but with virtually no emphasis on the "n" sounds. Other words are less accessible!

Originally Posted by GraemeCook

Capt James Cook, a native of Yorkshire, in his journal, noted the number of "smooks" observed. But the journals of Banks and Parkinson (artist), both from London, recorded the number of "smoaks" observed. Seems "smoke" had not yet evolved.

Graeme

Just proves the saying " no smoke" without "fire." Hence the spelling in this instance.



Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by Mountain Ash

Hi all. I have been recently reminded of a question I am yet to find an answer for. What is the reason for the shape of the rebate plane below (not the curved sole but rather the base that is wider than the body)? I have a plane very similar (just not boxwood).

Few reasons come to mind for whya coach builders planes were shaped this way: Can be used to undercut. The plane can be tilted in the rebate which allows for some novel adjustment, and a significant reduction in friction and or pinching in deep rebates.