Thread: Strange Planes

Its 1879 - your not on the newfangled gaslight - sunrise is around 8 and sunset about 3.30 and inbetween is grey and miserable (mizzle) - you need bright light to read a book but your hands tell you where to carve and whittle

Wood Planes

Coachman Planes

Toby

Originally Posted by brontehls

sunrise is around 8 and sunset about 3.30 and inbetween is grey and miserable

'ang abart guv'nor ... talkin' bart France not Blighty ...

Originally Posted by TobyC

Wood Planes
Coachman Planes
Toby

Ah ... Sindelar ... like a race from Middle Earth of elves crossed with dwarves ... where a full set of H&Rs barely catches your eye ...


I'll see your Coachman planes and raise you 7 pages of Coopers tools ...
Küferwerkzeuge / coopertools / Outils du Tonnelier | Hobel & Axt

Originally Posted by pmcgee

'ang abart guv'nor ... talkin' bart France not Blighty ...

Brittany and Normandy are just like that - its not all Nice and Cote d'Azur
(and Belgium should be closed for 5 months of the year)

I saw basically this map for some reason recently ...

W Europe.JPG

I don't know exactly what I had in my head before that, but I could barely credit
- that most of France is south of the UK
- that Germany was so close to and on a level or slightly south of the UK
- the relationship between the German coastline to the UK
- anything about where Holland fitted into the picture(!)


500km London to Cologne! It's 600km from Perth to Kalgoorlie!!!
At least now it makes more sense about The Beatles going to Hamburg.

PS .. while the geography lesson ...

Interesting construction of this moulding plane ... (so that's were ECE got the idea) ...

Profil Hobel / moulders / Rabots à moulure | Hobel & Axt

Hi Paul,

That looks for all the world like West Australian She-Oak?

So the obvious question is Grune Eiche, Green Oak, Chene Vert, or whatever it's French name is, somehow related?

Regards
Ray

PS.. the wikipedia pictures of Chene Vert trees look nothing like She Oak, so guess that theory is out the window..

Originally Posted by brontehls

Brittany and Normandy are just like that - its not all Nice and Cote d'Azur
(and Belgium should be closed for 5 months of the year)

I lived in Nantes for a few years (which is and isn't in Brittany but that's a different story) and the weather wasn't so bad... Well better than in England if the refugees are anything to go by.

There was a great antique market right near our apartment where, and I have sleepless nights regretting this, I passed up a joiners chest full of every moulding plane and gouge you could imagine, for 50 euros.

It was too big, I didn't need forty planes and thirty odd chisels, I was down sizing... Better get the sedatives, it's going to be one of those nights.

Originally Posted by Berlin

There was a great antique market right near our apartment where, and I have sleepless nights regretting this, I passed up a joiners chest full of every moulding plane and gouge you could imagine, for 50 euros.

I mean this in the nicest possible way ... but I hope you never sleep again.

You've let yourself down, you've let the forum down, ... you've let this country down.

You need to take a long hard look at yourself.

You may be in danger of letting proportion and reality intrude on this obsession disease hobby.

Have a nice day,
Paul