Tool Talk

What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: bird on August 11, 2015, 09:47:23 PM

Title: coopers tools?
Post by: bird on August 11, 2015, 09:47:23 PM

These are two massive .... planes, I guess I'd call them. They have two other big wooden attatchments with them. HELP

Title: Re: coopers tools?
Post by: bird on August 11, 2015, 09:49:17 PM

more of this

Title: Re: coopers tools?
Post by: Branson on August 12, 2015, 06:28:09 AM

Quote from: bird on August 11, 2015, 09:47:23 PM

These are two massive .... planes, I guess I'd call them. They have two other big wooden attatchments with them. HELP

These two are Howells.  They are a sort of plane.  After a barrel has been "raised" it is prepared to accept the heads.  First the howell is used to create a uniform surface for cutting the groove (croze) that holds the head.

Title: Re: coopers tools?
Post by: Branson on August 12, 2015, 06:32:14 AM

The second set of photos show another Howell first.  The second photo shows a croze (yep, the tool and the groove have the same name) and the cutting part of another croze.

Title: Re: coopers tools?
Post by: Branson on August 12, 2015, 06:35:13 AM

Hard to tell, but in the cardboard box, there is what looks to be another cooper's speciality plane along with a smoothing plane and a partial plow plane.