Contributed by Davistown Museum
Description
A typical cooper's tool used for barrel-making; also called a topping plane. A sun plane is used for leveling the ends of staves after they have been beveled with a cooper's adze . The narrow ledge created by the sun plane serves to hold first the chiv and later the croze to cut the groves on the inside of the staves to hold the cask heads. A tool used by Maine cooperÂ’s to fashion the hogsheads etc. of the Wine Islands trade. .
Size: 14" long, 3" wide, 2" blade.
Signed "White", 1837
About This Item
- Title: Sun Plane, 1837
- Creation Date: 1837
- Subject Date: 1837
- Media: Wood, cast steel blades
- Local Code: 100400T6
- Collection: Historic Maritime III (1800-1840): Boomtown Years & the Dawn of the Industrial Revolution
- Object Type: Physical Object
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