The Goodmanham Plane
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Corneel
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What a lovely project! I like your forge :lol: Whatever to get the job done!
And milling machines. Yes Reg. Don't labour the point. :D[/quote said:Some say that Eli Whitney invented the milling machine in the USA. However, there seems to be agreement that the plane is a Roman invention
Thanks Corneel - more barbeque fun to follow later.Corneel":2k4tq4rd said:
Here were have some photos of the sole flattening operations:
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memzey
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Bravo - excellent work!
Orraloon
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Looks like it gets the job done. How do those handles feel to work with?
A very enjoyable thread.
Regards
John
A very enjoyable thread.
Regards
John
Brilliant work again. Confirmation that the design was practical and the planes work.
Have you been following Chris Schwarz's blog? He's been exploring Roman workbenches, from one or two surviving fragments and from images in art. The design survived a long time in S America.
Maybe one of those would be a next logical area for a reconstruction.
Have you been following Chris Schwarz's blog? He's been exploring Roman workbenches, from one or two surviving fragments and from images in art. The design survived a long time in S America.
Maybe one of those would be a next logical area for a reconstruction.
Sheffield Tony
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Indeed a very nice job. Does the domestic oven get hot enough for tempering, mine didn't seem to get quite there. Do you just pop it in, or use a sand tray ?
Hah, Andy beats me to it again. I was going to say that there is an article by Chris Schwarz on Roman woodworking benches in issue 2 of Mortice and Tenon, which I have just re-read. He also draws on (or maybe plugs !) Woodworking in Estonia. I think we dicussed when playing with rxh's Silchester plane at Mac Timbers that the horizontal handles suited the low Roman bench ? Schwarz's reconstruction is low (I think he mentions around knee height), one thought that occured to me having been to Pompeii, is that judging by the plaster casts of the victims of the Vesuvius eruption, and various ceiling and door frame heights, Romans may have been quite short by modern standards, so you wouldn't want to overdo it. The other thing that struck me is that "Roman" in the widest sense covers an awful lot of ground, and probably a lot of different bench designs.
I read the article with quite some interest ... Why ? because as a green woodworker, I often use a low workbench. It is a shave horse with the clamping parts removed, i.e., what is to hand when working in a field. It is rather wobbly, being three legged and suffering from seasonal shrinkage in the (knock down) leg joints at just the time of year you need to use it. But it had occured to me that with some extra leg holes and a spare leg, it could be converted to a 4 legged low bench when needed, and a line of dog holes would make it rather versatile. I'll look more closely at Chris Schwarz's drawings...
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Hah, Andy beats me to it again. I was going to say that there is an article by Chris Schwarz on Roman woodworking benches in issue 2 of Mortice and Tenon, which I have just re-read. He also draws on (or maybe plugs !) Woodworking in Estonia. I think we dicussed when playing with rxh's Silchester plane at Mac Timbers that the horizontal handles suited the low Roman bench ? Schwarz's reconstruction is low (I think he mentions around knee height), one thought that occured to me having been to Pompeii, is that judging by the plaster casts of the victims of the Vesuvius eruption, and various ceiling and door frame heights, Romans may have been quite short by modern standards, so you wouldn't want to overdo it. The other thing that struck me is that "Roman" in the widest sense covers an awful lot of ground, and probably a lot of different bench designs.
I read the article with quite some interest ... Why ? because as a green woodworker, I often use a low workbench. It is a shave horse with the clamping parts removed, i.e., what is to hand when working in a field. It is rather wobbly, being three legged and suffering from seasonal shrinkage in the (knock down) leg joints at just the time of year you need to use it. But it had occured to me that with some extra leg holes and a spare leg, it could be converted to a 4 legged low bench when needed, and a line of dog holes would make it rather versatile. I'll look more closely at Chris Schwarz's drawings...
Thanks for all your kind comments.
The handles feel a bit strange at first, as you might imagine. However, the plane seems quite convenient to use. I plan to take it to the European Woodworking Show this Saturday so it can be tried there if I can borrow the use of a bench.Orraloon":10q118ga said:
Yes Andy, I have have read Chris Schwartz's articles and intend to make a low bench, taking into account the remarks on leg length by Sheffield Tony as I am 6 ft tall and my back gives me some bother.AndyT":10q118ga said:
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I think this is a super project. A real exploration of woodworking history, bravo x2!
Absolutely fascinating, I have only just read this as I was away in September....
A very belated thank you!
A very belated thank you!
matthewwh
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Cracking thread and a cracking project, thank you for taking the time to document and share it.
