"What's It" Basic Rules Reminder

For a full run down on this project and rules please go to: The Patriot Woodworker and MWTCA "What's It" project

• Only Patriot Woodworker Members are eligible to participate and receive the award.
• The MWTCA only accepts a verified source to support your answer, so one should be submitted with your answer, such as a patent, catalog entry, tool book reference, or a respectable website on the subject. Do not let these requirements prevent you from having fun and submitting educated answers on the subject without verification, we can worry about references later. All answers are welcome, as well as healthy debates regarding "What's It".
• If a verified and referenced answer is not arrived at by the end of each month's "What's It" project, a random draw will be performed for a "One Year MWTCA Club Membership".
• Only Patriot Woodworker's who participate in this "What's It" topic will be included in the random draw.

 

Additional What's It Rules

• Unless you are completely sure what this item is, please avoid "definitive statements" that appear that you are without a doubt claiming that you know what the item is. For example stating, "this item is called a "widget xx" used for "insert purpose here". If you are making a definitive statement you must accompany your statement with evidence or proof from a secondary source.
• An example of acceptable statements within the realm of having fun and educated guesses would be something like this, "I believe it could be", or "It appears it's made for this or that", etc etc etc...

 

Ok ladies and gentlemen, we now have our "What's it" live and ready!

The image(s) below is a MWTCA "What's It" image for you to research, and tell us all here in this topic post, just what the heck is it!

 

Project Details

The information provided hereon is all the information that is provided, no further information on this item will be added.

Text on it says “AM PUB SUPPLY.” The 3/8″ thick blade is held in place with a screw cam. 

 

 

We can tell it is some type of plane.  Maybe for the grooves in wood panel doors?

Looks like a side cutting plane. Could be for making a freestanding dovetail or tenon as in for drawer slides.

A real wild guess outside of the box here, but could it be some form of a leather paring "plane" that was used to prepare leather book bindings or perhaps inlay? Possibly to speed up the process over hand paring while providing more consistent results. Second guess AM PUB Supply = American Publishing Supply.

 

While I can find no objective evidence to actually support either suppositions, the below video of the hand process and the link for one type of a hand paring knife at least gives me a slight bit of credibility for such a guess. Disclaimer: I've never pared leather or been a book binder nor played one on TV nor have I slept in a Holiday Inn recently, although my grandaughter did most of last week. Anyway, my $.02 which won't even buy you a bite of a donut.

 

Leather Paring RH English Knife

 

 

Two days left folks! Anymore suggestions?

Found this picture on my hunting trips but there is no explanation for this either.

 

1 hour ago, HandyDan said:

Found this picture on my hunting trips but there is no explanation for this either.

Looks like an old shooting board plane to me Dan, doesn't have the skew to the iron but I've seen them without.

Looks home made

 

Winner

@Grandpadave52 is the winner of this months What's It. This one got us all stumped, so we decided to go to random draw, and Gramps got it.

 

Award

Dave, for your best answer you have won a 12 month membership into the MWTCA.

Please Private Message me your contact info, shipping address, spouse or significant others name (if applicable).

Thank you all for your participation!

 

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Gristmill Magazine Sample

 

Enjoy Dave.  Congrats!

Thank-you @John Morris. Looking forward to reacquainting with MWTCA and reading the Gristmill again. PM will be sent soon.

 

Thank-you @HandyDan.

Congrats Dave , there is some nice reads in it and I know you have lots of spare time for that between doughnuts!

1 hour ago, Gerald said:

Congrats Dave , there is some nice reads in it and I know you have lots of spare time for that between doughnuts!

Thanks Gerald.

 Way to go Dave!

55 minutes ago, DuckSoup said:

 Way to go Dave!

Thanks Bob 

Congratulations, Gramps!

1 hour ago, HARO50 said:

Congratulations, Gramps!

Thanks John.

198-4 This is a vintage all-iron rabbet plane by R. Hoe & Co., Inc. number P257-1. It was designed to cut rabbets, which are rectangular recesses or grooves along the edge of a piece of wood. R. Hoe & Co. was a New York City based printing press manufacturer.

 

Sources:

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-all-metal-rabbet-plane-hoe-co-2006307790

https://getagripandmore.com/collections/hand-tools/products/r-hoe-co-plane