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A Historical Perspective Video on the Scrub Plane

A Historical Perspective Video on the Scrub Plane

I thought it might help to see a little background to the Stanley development of their scrub plane and so we put together a short video to see the comparison. I am using adapted versions of the old and new roughing planes to show that they both work very well

Concluding the Scrub Plane Series

Concluding the Scrub Plane Series

Metal and Wooden Scrub Planes Both Work Fine We have seen that the cast metal scrub planes originating in the Western world started only a little over a century or so ago; and that these dedicated roughing planes found their origins from an early wooden counterpart. Metal versions were never

Old Men, Old Planes, Old Ways Now Gone - The Origin of Scrub Planes

Old Men, Old Planes, Old Ways Now Gone - The Origin of Scrub Planes

This Blog Post is About Scrub Planes. Had I said roughing planes, only a few would have understood. Even in the 1960s old wooden planes, the Stanley scrub plane and even the Stanley furring plane would have been referred to as roughing planes because, in typical fashion, the plane derived

Scrub Planes From Common #4 Smoothing Planes

Special planes developed for roughing off coarse, rough-sawn, undulating surfaces were developed by the Stanley Rule and Level Company in the late 1890s. This short-lived, little-needed development resulted in a series of planes known as firring planes and scrub planes. The more commonly used of the two plane types is