Archive - Working Wooden Planes

Everybody's Making Planes (2024)

Plus, did the Ohio Tool Co. pay its convict planemakers?

Sep 10, 2024 •

January 2024

Everything we know (and don't know) about dated Dutch planes

Plus, Walter Rose on the lineage of plane ownership

Jan 4, 2024 •

December 2023

How Many of These 36 Butcher Marks Are Counterfeit?

A tale of 19th century trademark piracy

Dec 1, 2023 •

October 2023

July 2023

June 2023

I trained an AI chatbot on antique plane research

It was a train wreck

Jun 30, 2023 •

May 2023

March 2023

Everybody's Making Planes! (2023)

Plus: Making a kanna with Scott Wynn and more GIANT planes

Mar 30, 2023 •

February 2023

What ancient hand tools do to our emotions

Plus: The plane that joined a town together, and learn how to draw a jack plane in Telugu

Feb 6, 2023 •

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