Rovonoc plane?

Re: Rovonoc plane? *LINK*

Tom MacGregor

>Stanley made planes for HS&B, I'm not sure who else did. REVONOC is Conover spelled backwards - a guy named Conover became a corporate officer around 1900. The link below has some company info.


http://www.thckk.org/ovb-hist.html

Pretty sure that's an Ohio

Neal in San Jose

>Ohio Tool made planes for various retailers, and the thick, tapered, laminated blade is an almost sure give-away. The taper doesn't affect frog settings when adjusting for shaving thickness, since you will only move the blade a few thousands at a time and the mouth opening change would be a geometrical function (sine?), or a fraction of a percent of that movement. It does marginally change the frog setting when you sharpen the blade if you have to take off a significant amount due to taking out a chip, but again, not a big deal. The advantage is that blade has much more mass than a skinny Stanley style blade, thus it's much less prone to chatter. The steel in those blades is also very good, so you won't gain anything changing to an aftermarket blade.

Re: Pretty sure that's an Ohio

Robert Henderson

>that's good to know. Thanks!

Agree with Neal

David Miller from Iowa

>Made by Ohio. Great user planes