Contributed by Davistown Museum
Description
Rounding Plane. Pollack (4th edition) lists a J. Holmes mark with no location. All the J. Holmes planes listed by Pollack are shorter than this plane, which more closely matches their listing of a 10" beech mold with flat chamfers, the only known plane of I. P. Holmes of Berwick, Maine. Is there a relationship between the two makers? Is I. Holmes a third Holmes? Is he from the Berwick area? Could J. Holmes be from the Berwick area? Comments and additional information welcomed. This plane was purchased by Bob Wheeler a decade ago from Liberty Tool Co., resold and is now loaned to the museum by the current owner.
Size: 10" long, 1 1/8" wide convex profile.
Markings: "I. HOLMES" (possibly J. Holmes?) and "C. REED" and another "C. R." all on one end of the plane.
A plane is a tool consisting of a flat-bottomed stock with a cutting iron held in a fixed position relative to the bottom of the stock. The purpose of this tool is to shave small pieces from the surface of a workpiece, reducing it to the desired thickness. A rounding plane (also called a Cooper's Rounding Plane) has a concave bottom used to smooth the outside of a barrel or pulley.
About This Item
- Title: Rounding plane, ca. 1760
- Creator: I. Holmes
- Creation Date: circa 1760
- Subject Date: circa 1760
- Location: ME
- Media: Wood, steel blade
- Local Code: 50402T2
- Collection: Maine Made Tool Table-Maritime II
- Object Type: Physical Object
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Davistown MuseumPO Box 346, 58 Main Street #4, Liberty, ME 04949
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