Roubo’s Rabbiting Plane Posted on October 6, 2014 by Lost Art Press Compliments of Suzanne Ellison. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Share on X (Opens in new window) X Like this:Like Loading... Related
I assume its effectiveness is due to the “nasty, big, pointy teeth!” (with apologies to Monty Python). Loading...
Can’t tell if that’s a tricorn hat or a possum on his head. At least it all makes working in a cold shop easier. Loading...
Looks awfully like a hare not a rabbet (rebate). (Even like Albrecht Durer’s hare?). Which would make it a hare-plane — uhh — “this thing won’t fly”. Oh, and looks more like a ferret than a possum on his head – and if it doesn’t get to catch the hare it’ll want a rebate. Danny (Dave) Sheffield, England. Loading...
Danny (or Dave), You have solved it. That is Durer’s ‘Hare’ and it is ‘a hare-planed idea’. The hat is the original tricorn hat in Plate 14. Loading...
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I assume its effectiveness is due to the “nasty, big, pointy teeth!” (with apologies to Monty Python).
Can’t tell if that’s a tricorn hat or a possum on his head. At least it all makes working in a cold shop easier.
Brilliant. How many carrots did a plane such as this typically consume?
Where exactly is his right hand?
I was hoping no one would ask that.
I was surprised it took 5 comments.
It looks like a combination Jack and Rabbit plane to me.
I’m waiting for the Canadian Version with a Beaver
Don’t poke the bear.
And yet another reason Canada is better.
Looks awfully like a hare not a rabbet (rebate). (Even like Albrecht Durer’s hare?).
Which would make it a hare-plane — uhh — “this thing won’t fly”.
Oh, and looks more like a ferret than a possum on his head – and if it doesn’t get to catch the hare it’ll want a rebate.
Danny (Dave) Sheffield, England.
Danny (or Dave),
You have solved it. That is Durer’s ‘Hare’ and it is ‘a hare-planed idea’. The hat is the original tricorn hat in Plate 14.
Surprised not to see some hairy bench dogs.
That’s so coney.
🙂