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coopers tools?
« 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
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Re: coopers tools?
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2015, 09:49:17 PM »
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Re: coopers tools?
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2015, 06:28:09 AM »
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.

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Re: coopers tools?
« Reply #3 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.

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Re: coopers tools?
« Reply #4 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.