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- OBJECT TYPE
- wood/bench/jack
- DATE
- 1870
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1981.0579.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- WOOD/ STEEL
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 40.8 cm
- Width
- 7.0 cm
- Height
- 16.2 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Industrial Technology
- Category
- Tools-Hand
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
USED IN PRELIMINARY PREPARATION OF WOOD SURFACE, TO ROUGH CUT THE SAW KERF SURFACE ON THE LUMBER FROM THE SAW MILL. - Technical
-
JACK PLANES ARE COMMON BENCH PLANES WITH A STOCK 12-18 IN. LONG & 2.5-3 IN. WIDE, A FLAT SOLE, & AN OPEN ORCLOSED HANDLE. THE CUTTING IRON IS 1.75-2.25 IN. LONG, SLIGHTLY CONVEX TO PREVENT THE CORNERS OF THE IRON FROM MARKING THE WORK, & BEDDED SQUARE AT 45 OR 5 DEGREES (1). THE BEST BENCH PLANES HAD DOUBLE IRONS, INCREASINGLY COMMON AFTER 1800. DOUBLE IRONS CONSIST OF A HIGH CARBON STEEL CUTTING EDGE SCART (CUTTING IRON) WELDED TO A LOW CARBON EXTENSION (BREAK IRON) JOINED TOGETHER BY A COUPLING SCREW. BREAK IRON FORMS A STEEP SLOPE FOR THE RISING SHAVING & STIFFENS CUTTING IRON. CUTTING IRON OF JACK PLANE IS MITRED OR BASILLED LIKE A CHISEL ON UNDERSIDE OF CUTTING EDGE & IS SET RANK; PROJECTING FURTHER THAN USUAL BELOW THE SOLE FOR FAST, DEEP CUTTING (3). - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- N/A
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- UNFINISHED
- Decoration
- N/A
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Unknown Manufacturer, Plane, circa 1870, Artifact no. 1981.0579, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingenium.ca/en/id/1981.0579.001/
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