500 year old woodie

[KevM]

I listened to an article on Durer's 1514 engraving Melencolia yesterday, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b044gp6c, when I looked at the image on-line I was drawn to the carpenter's implements among the many other symbols.

The plane looks to have a blade set for cutting on the pull stroke, the amount of detail he's used for the plane suggests that he probably used props, or was very familiar with the tool. So, if this is accurate for the period, when did we change? Incidentally, the saw looks like it's made for cutting on the push stroke, as well as bearing a passing resemblance to one or two of my adventures in saw restoration!

Wikipedia article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melencolia_I
British Museum - http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/hi ... holia.aspx

Higher resolution image - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... ero%29.jpg

 

[G S Haydon]

Nice one Kev. This one also had a mention on the LAP Blog

 

[KevM]

Nice one Kev. This one also had a mention on the LAP Blog

Thanks for that, the LAP Blog article is here http://blog.lostartpress.com/2014/05/27 ... re-part-1/ in case anybody else is interested.

 

[GLFaria]

The plane looks to have a blade set for cutting on the pull stroke, the amount of detail he's used for the plane suggests that he probably used props, or was very familiar with the tool. So, if this is accurate for the period, when did we change? Incidentally, the saw looks like it's made for cutting on the push stroke, as well as bearing a passing resemblance to one or two of my adventures in saw restoration!

Wikipedia article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melencolia_I
British Museum - http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/hi ... holia.aspx
View attachment 475
Higher resolution image - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... ero%29.jpg

I believe these planes cut on the push stroke. For a right-handed person, the "horn" was grabbed by the left (front) hand and the right hand pushed the back part of the body of the plane.

 

[KevM]

The plane looks to have a blade set for cutting on the pull stroke, the amount of detail he's used for the plane suggests that he probably used props, or was very familiar with the tool. So, if this is accurate for the period, when did we change? Incidentally, the saw looks like it's made for cutting on the push stroke, as well as bearing a passing resemblance to one or two of my adventures in saw restoration!

Wikipedia article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melencolia_I
British Museum - http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/hi ... holia.aspx
View attachment 475
Higher resolution image - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... ero%29.jpg

I believe these planes cut on the push stroke. For a right-handed person, the "horn" was grabbed by the left (front) hand and the right hand pushed the back part of the body of the plane.

Aha, thanks - that makes sense... this smoothing plane from Vienna has the same setup.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... ladzik.jpg

 

[bugbear]

Hmmm. Which thread to post to?

A Duhrer toothing plane!

https://dblaney.wordpress.com/tag/durer-plane/

BugBear