A grooving plane, also called a plow plane or plough plane, is a hand plane used in woodworking to cut grooves and small rebates into a workpiece. It is traditionally used to cut the grooves that hold drawer bottoms or the rear walls of cabinets and boxes in place. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Introduced When (Circa)Source documents established use in England, likely Dutch regions and Germany by this period, an earlier Roman era precursor is also described, source is a hobbyist blog rather than an academic history. OriginDescribes a simple precursor grooving tool used by Roman woodworkers, source is a hobbyist plane history blog, not confirmed as the direct origin of the modern grooving or plow plane. Connections
Used In
Grooving Plane is used in Woodworking.
Sources
1. Who Invented The Screw Arm Plow Plane? (Working Wooden Planes)
Article body, Roman origins paragraph
By the time of the Romans, woodworkers had figured out that they could simplify the task by fitting a chisel in a block of wood to make a simple grooving plane
Article body, mid 1500s European use paragraph
By the mid-1500s the English (and likely the Dutch) and Germans were using them
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Grooving plane (Wikipedia)
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A grooving plane, plow plane, or plough plane is a plane used in woodworking to make grooves and (with some of the metal versions) small rabbets.
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