Vintage 17" jack or fore plane.
Plane body maker is unknown.
19th Century
Width 17" (43.5cm)
Height 7 1/2" (19cm)
Depth 3" (7.5cm)
Usually the one of the first planes to be used on rough stock. A jack plane is a general-purpose bench plane, used for dressing timber down to size. The versality of the jack plane has led to it being the most common bench plane, It's name possibly from the term 'Jack of all trades'. The name jack plane is sometimes used interchangeably with fore plane.
Comes with a Cast Steel W. Marples & Sons, Hibernia, Sheffield, England, blade and Thos. Ibbotson & Co. Ltd chip breaker
William Marples was one of several ‘Marples’ in Sheffield manufacturing joiners tools in the 1840s. Know for their brass inlaid rosewood & ebony braces, boxwood spokeshaves, beech planes, gauges and squares. The company is in family hands and still based in Sheffield.
Founded by Thomas Ibbotson (c.1788-1871),who was also a merchant and table knife ‘manufacturer’, who made Bowie knives. Thos Ibbotson and Co was established in 1814 as a manufacturer of Joiners' tools. In 1855 edge tools were added to the range, encompassing joiners' tools, saws, files, engineers' and machinists' tools, hammers, garden tools, tool chests and skates. When Thomas etired in 1859, his sons – Thomas (c.1813-1883), William (c.1818-1895), and Peter Frith (1834-1905) – became partners in the firm, which by 1871 employed a hundred workers. Ibbotson’s assets were bought by William Marples & Sons Ltd. in 1905. With Gee & Holmes later owning the name.
The body is in excellent used condition with the usual aged related wear. The handle has been repaired and stained black at some stage in the past. There is older signs of worm in the wedge. The blade and iron have been left to be sharpened by the new owner. All items have been lightly cleaned and oiled with raw linseed oil, to keep the original patina. A very solid and substantial plane, in excellent condition.
All items where appropriate will be sent well packaged, tracked and insured.
Where possible we will combine purchases for shipping. Total weigh approx. 2.15Kg.
