![]() It would seem reasonable to infer that these planes were therefore rather specialist, selling in small numbers - at least, too small to justify producing a special blade. Despite this, the present (I Sorby, usual for Griffiths) iron is "cut". ![]() The bed is NOT excavated for the bolt for holding a cap-iron, so the plane is clearly intended for a single-iron. Since the shaving aperture is currently 4mm, I was concerned that the apparently quite shallow body had been caused by sole-jointing, but a quick scale diagram showed that 2mm more body depth would close the aperture entirely (low bedding angle leads to a rapid mouth-opening effect with sole wear). ![]() The key statistic is the bedding angle - a rather low 36.5 degrees. I have, in my accumulation of car boot bargains to cheap to resist, a low angle coffin bodied plane, by Griffiths of Norwich.
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