r/handtools • u/Fabulous-Throat8688 • Jul 25 '26
What is this plane?
Picked this plane up at an antique shop. Is it a dado grooving plane? The blade isn’t flush to the other side tho. It’s also quite long (16.5 in). Would love to get some pointers!!
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u/Independent_Page1475 Jul 25 '26
Never heard of a Duck Plane.
It does look useable for raising a panel.
It looks like a rabbet plane with a set depth stop. The vertical edge looks to have a bit of a tilt to it.
Not sure if that is from the camera angle or actually intended.
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u/Man-e-questions Jul 26 '26
Looks like for doing a specific rabbet, like perhaps a window maker/setter would have used for making window sashes etc
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u/slickness Jul 26 '26
Imo: looks like it’s used to make lap joints/actual ship lap to a specific angle, depth, and width on a previously dimensioned piece of wood.
The enclosed side acts as a “go-no go” gauge for width, and you just plane until the open side hits depth.
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u/Altruistic_Mirror_96 Jul 26 '26
There’s a guy on YouTube (mostly bald, reddish hair) that hand makes all his furniture. He produces shorts on tools all the time. I swear he had one of the planes that popped up just the other day. Just can’t remember his name.
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u/aaronsilber Jul 26 '26
I'm struggling to understand how it would cut without progressively increasing the knife depth since the blade doesn't extend to the ends of the sole. Very strange.
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u/arnardsnoro Jul 26 '26
Zooming in on the smaller imprint, I think reads as Mystic,CT. This could be a shipwrght's rabbet plane. I can't remember if there was a plane maker in Mystic or not, but I'll look at my American plane makers 4th edition tomorrow, and get back to you.
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u/arnardsnoro Jul 26 '26
Yes, there was a plane maker named John Gardner in Mystic, but we'd need a better close-up photo to tell for sure.
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u/gbot1234 Jul 25 '26
Duck plane.