Carpenters Jack Plane - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 41552 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 159.03 FAGACEAE Fagus sylvatica | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Carpenters Jack Plane | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Carpenters Jack Plane | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Carpenters Jack PlaneUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Moseley J & Son | Donor No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Label source: This and the following items illustrate the manufacture of planes in various stages of progress. Planes are chiefly made of beech wood. With small inlaid portions of boxwood Buxus sempervirens. The beech is prepared by steaming the planks a, bout 7 ft long and 4 ins thick. It is steamed for three days after which it is stacked in well ventilated rooms for some months until thoroughly dry, then sawn into pieces about the size of the different planes required, and stacked in piles in heated roo, ms to season for several years. | ||||