I'm in the middle of researching Viking planes for a future newsletter so I only have two references at this point. They're briefly mentioned in the book Ancient Boats In North-West Europe: The Archaeology of Water Transport to AD 1500, by Seán McGrail. The paper "Recreating Two Early-Norse Tool-Chests" in the The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology also talks about them. It sounds like planes were used but probably for jointing and moldings, not smoothing.
Excellent post
This was a good read! I like the post's 'format': varied and with music :-)
I'm curious about this: "... the Norse (who were also plane users) about a thousand years ago."
Could anyone please point me towards where I might find out more about Norse planes?
I'm in the middle of researching Viking planes for a future newsletter so I only have two references at this point. They're briefly mentioned in the book Ancient Boats In North-West Europe: The Archaeology of Water Transport to AD 1500, by Seán McGrail. The paper "Recreating Two Early-Norse Tool-Chests" in the The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology also talks about them. It sounds like planes were used but probably for jointing and moldings, not smoothing.
Thanks! Very interesting, looking forward to the newsletter :-)