Plow Plane, Yankee (NC- 728)
Dateca. 1739-1763
Maker
John Nicholson
MediumWood, iron, and steel
DimensionsLength: 10 3/16" Height: 3 11/16" Thickness of stock: 1 3/16"
Credit LineBequest of David V. Englund
Object number2016-419
DescriptionPlow plane of standard rectangular shape with an adjustable fence the length of the body. The lower edge of the discharge side is rabbeted for the iron skate and it is secured to the body with four iron rivets; far side bottom edge is rabbeted to receive the fence. Two square arms protrude down to the fence and sit in dados secured with riveted pins that have square washers on the top. The arms run through mortises in the plane body adjusted with wooden thumbscrews threaded through the top. A decorative cove molding is on the underside of the fence and the inner top edge is rabbeted to receive the plane body. An adjustable tomb-stone depth stop in the forestock is controlled by a wooden thumbscrew threaded through the side of the body. The top and side edges of the body have narrow flat chamfers that terminate with lamb’s tongue cuts on the far side and stop at the cove molding above the skate on the discharge side. Fitted with a hooked iron and wedge. The wooden strip nailed to the fence is a working life alteration.MarkingsI*NICHOLSON
On toe: raised "B*MAN," within a crenelated rectangular cartouche
ca. 1739-1763
ca. 1753-1784
ca. 1720-1753
ca. 1753-1784
ca. 1739-1763
ca. 1739-1763
ca. 1753-1784
ca. 1753-1784
ca. 1720-1753
ca. 1720-1753
ca. 1720-1753
ca. 1720-1753