Sunday, March 16, 2025

Brass bullnose plane

A beautiful little bullnose plane without a makers name but likely either Norris or Spiers, the body is brass or bronze with apparently a rosewood wedge, we should clean it up and see.



 

2 comments:

rats said...

Can anyone hazard an informed guess as to when this beauty may have been introduced? Elegant thing.

Dave said...

With no markings, it might be made from one of the catalog kits that were popular back in the day. You would get a roughish casting, a dull iron, and plans for the wooden wedge and you could make it as plain or as fancy as you wish. Infill planes made good kits because the casting is stable and they require no mechanism.