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What Are Tongue And Groove Planes?

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Tongue and Groove Planes are a woodwork plane(s) used as the name suggests to produce a tongue and to produce a groove.

Tongue and Groove plane(s) are either a pair of planes (a tongue plane and a groove plane) or they are a combination plane which can produce a tongue and they can produce a groove.

Tongue and Groove planes are used to produce a tongue and groove joint where the tongue on the edge of one piece of wood slots / slides into the matching sized groove on another piece of wood.

The most widely used example of this is that often seen in flooring with tongue and groove floorboards.



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Wooden Tongue And Groove Planes

Wooden tongue and groove planes have been made since at least the late 1700's where they were made in the main as matching wooden plane pairs which consisted of a wooden grooving plane and a wooden tonguing plane.

Each pair of planes would be dedicated to produce one size of tongue and grooves.

The sizes typically seen in old wooden tongue and groove planes are 13mm (1/2 inch), 16mm (5/8 inch), 19mm (3/4 inch), 22mm (7/8 inch) and 25mm (1 inch).

See the Wooden Tongue And Groove Planes Review for more info about pairs of wooden tongue and groove planes.

Later in the history of wooden tongue and groove planes came a tongue and groove combination plane which aren't seen anywhere near the numbers of the tongue and groove pairs. The single tongue and groove combination plane concept was later used by Stanley to produce their Stanley 148 tongue and groove plane.

See the Wooden Grooving, Tonguing and Checking Planes Review for more info about pairs of wooden tongue and groove combination planes.



Iron Tongue And Groove Planes

metal tongue and groove plane

The iron tongue and groove plane was born in the 1880's in the form of the Stanley 48 Tongue And Groove Plane and the Stanley 49 Tongue And Groove Plane which saw about a 50 year manufacturing run.

Also not long after the production of the above came the Stanley 148 Tongue And Groove Plane which had about a 60 year production run.

With such a long production run it would follow from my experience that there would be quite a few of these planes floating about today however this doesn't seem to be the case which means either woodworkers chose not to buy the iron tongue and groove planes as they continued to use the huge abundance of wooden tongue and groove planes at that time or if there were a lot of iron tongue and groove planes produced then either a lot have broken or woodworkers / collectors today have them stashed away for lengthy periods.

Today, at the time of writing this, there is a new version of iron tongue and groove plane available to buy in the form of the Lie-Nielsen Tongue And Groove Plane.










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