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"Rabbit Plane"

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"Rabbit Plane"

Dave Thompson - Champaign IL

>Found this while looking through some auctions:


and the description:

diminutive buniform, ideal for precision planing when you only need to remove a hare...

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#2

Is that the Welsh design?

Eric Hedberg

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Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native in FL. Exile :~(

>Now that is a true Rabbit plane you've come across there Dave

So a scrub plane should look like a pig---for when you want to HOG off alot of wood. ;~)

Todd O.

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The Welsh designs are extremely rare

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>So probably not.

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#5

Re: Caws Pobi

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>It might be because there isn't any rabbit in Welsh Rabbit, or Welsh Rarebit, just bread and cheese and beer and butter and mustard and pepper.

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#6

I'd say that its a rare "bit" of a rabbit:-)

Eric Hedberg

>Wouldn't you? Here we go again! Must be rabbit season, duck! Eric (Who often gives his hand planes a looney tuning)

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#7

A question

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>The classic No. 10 plane is the size of a No. 5 - does that make it a jack rabbit plane? And, if so, was it more popular in the Western U.S. than the East?

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#8

Only by a hare

Eric Hedberg

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