Norris Number A50 Annealed Iron Smoothing Plane
Added: January 26, 2010
Filed under: Norris, Smoothing Planes
Tagged: Annealed Iron, Coffin Smoother, Smoother Plane
Description
In the last years of the 19th century and a decade or so into the 20th century it must have been very obvious to the manufacturers of infill planes that the American "Stanley-type" planes were grabbing a large portion of the British cabinetmaker's market (not to mention the markets in "The Colonies"). Way too much of the market in fact. With this in mind several makers decided to do something about it, albeit with varying results.
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