Mobius Circle Plane *LINK*

Re: Mobius Circle Plane

todd Hughess

>Maybe a camera problim? Front knob looks kind of twisted too but OK in the other photo....Is strange looking though eh?......Todd

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Dale Stansbery

>The pictures appear to be digitally manipulated. If you look at the picture taken at an angle from the top side used in the gallery, you can see the blade extend down right through the side of the plane.

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William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>Scanners do that. Instead of a digital camera, he just put the plane on his flat bed scanner to get the picture.

That is not a photographic mistake

Eric Hedberg

>This is obviously a legendary spiral plane. Less well known than circular planes, it was designed to smooth the spiral surfaces of large wooden acme threads. Very few examples are known to still exist as most have been straightened out by well meaning collectors. It is not known if any of the left hand versions are still in existance ;-) Eric

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Todd Stock

>Fire.

Even less common

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>than this example are the spiral Whitworth planes, used for smoothing very large Whitworth threads. You can tell this one is not a spiral Whitworth plane because all known sp. Wh. planes are infills.

This is what it is for

Chris Knight

>You need it for this kind of work!

Disagree, looks like some of Lyn's lathe work ;-)

Eric Hedberg

>or maybe something you'd do with an Escher plane. By the way are Escher planes bevel up or down or for that matter can you even tell? Eric

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Ray DuBose, Memphis TN

>I'm with you, First thing I thought when I saw it was it was in a fire.