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   JohnWW | May 07, 2008 11:16pm | #1

   It would appear to be a finishing tool for a core box, but it really isn't what I would call a core box plane.

   John White

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   pattrnmkr | May 08, 2008 12:59am | #2

   John, Yes, true, not in the likes of a Stanley #56 or #57. Better put, a tool used to make an accurate half round concave shape. I have not used it in years. When i did, it was used most often to finish the staves of core boxes round, after ripping them on the appropriate angles, bradding and gluing them to headers. Or wasting the stock of a laminated box away on the table saw roughly to round, then using the tool. That I know of, there are a couple different styles, this one, and a style that rather than a thumb "punch", has a ratcheting handle that when pushed forward, pivots and engages a gear to advance the timing of the cutter, then on the draw stroke the pawl would fall into the next cog etc. Very cumbersome to set up to achieve symmetry and dimension, but on a long box, less time consuming than a masonite template, crayon and a spokeshave. A cool tool from the past though.Jeff

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   JohnWW | May 08, 2008 01:22am | #3

   A cool tool and just as cool to find that you actually used it.John W.