Old wooden sorby planes
James Watriss
>Just bought an old sorby try plane on ebay. Anybody familiar with old sorby stuff, or have any useful links with regard to old english wooden planes?
Old wooden sorby planes
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#2Re: Old wooden sorby planes
Andreas Winkler
>James,
do mean wooden planes made from sorb wood or is "sorby" a planemaker ?
Andreas
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#3Re: Old wooden sorby planes
Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA
>Sorby made tools.
I'm curious - what's sorb wood?
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#4Sorb Apple Tree
Steve Elliott
>A quick search on Google brought up this:
A sorb apple tree is "a medium-sized European tree resembling the rowan but bearing edible fruit."
Now the question is, what's a rowan?
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#5Re: Sorb Apple Tree
Warren in PA
>Sorbus is the genus of mountain-ash(has ash like leaves but not really an ash). Sorbus americana grows in Eastern U.S. At least one European species is called rowan. There are clusters of red or orange berries on mountain-ash.
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#6Re: Sorb Apple Tree
Skip in Falls Church
>I don't know how Rowans are for woodworking - but they're supposed ward off witches. :)
Skip
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#7Re: Sorb Apple Tree
James Watriss
>So this should truly be a tasty hand plane... not to mention one I can hang in my window at night to ward off evil spirits and witches. Just what I was hoping for!
Fantastic!
:)