Spill Plane

dowdstools · January 01, 2016, 12:04:05 PM

As you head down that slippery slope to antique hand tool use, you will discover a myriad of hand planes, some designed for a single dedicated purpose. Case in point - the wooden hand plane on the left is called a "spill plane", and its only function is to create the long, tightly twisted shavings seen to its right. Before matches were a common and inexpensive item, these "spills" would be used to transfer a flame from the fireplace to a pipe, candle, lantern, etc. The plane on the right is a Stanley No. 3 smoothing plane, with the shavings from it shown for comparison. The spill plane is 10 3/4 inches long, 2 5/16 inches wide, and has no maker's mark on it. It may have been made by a craftsman for his personal use.

Lynn

Northwoods · January 01, 2016, 12:31:55 PM

Very cool!

Papaw · January 01, 2016, 12:38:27 PM

A one trick pony plane!

bill300d · January 01, 2016, 01:16:21 PM

That's one I have not seen before.

dowdstools · January 01, 2016, 01:21:45 PM

Quote from: Papaw on January 01, 2016, 12:38:27 PM
A one trick pony plane!

Yeah, Papaw, it has one job to do, and it does it well.

turnnut · January 01, 2016, 02:11:31 PM

as many times that I had seen the words "SPILL PLANE", I never knew what they were for.

thanks for the education.

Plyerman · January 02, 2016, 09:11:22 AM

Very interesting

khsquarehead · January 06, 2016, 01:59:07 AM

Lee Valley has a modern production version of this tool.
www.leevalley.com /US/wood/page.aspx?p=64338&cat=1,230,41182

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