So, following the logic of the information posted by John, perhaps the
rubber plane is a smooth plane. The inventory doesn't have one, unless 1
hand plane is a smooth plane per Tom's assumption.
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Zachary Dillinger The Eaton County Joinery www.theeatoncountyjoinery.com
517-231-3374

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:09 AM, John L  wrote:
> Interestingly, the OED cites a number of potential "rubber" tools for
> the plasterer, stone mason and metalsmith. Not sure which of the
> following if any apply to your inventory, but it might give you some
> leads to pursue. JL
>
>
> A metal or stone implement used for rubbing, esp. in order to smooth
> or flatten a surface. Now chiefly hist.
>
> 1794 D. Steel Elements Rigging & Seamanship 88 Rubber, a small iron
> instrument, in a wooden handle, to rub down or flatten the seams. 1835
> J. Holman Voy. round World III. xiv. 422 The plaster is..smoothed with
> a rubber, until it acquires an even surface. 1850 C. Holtzapffel
> Turning & Mech. Manip. III. 1089 The Rubber used by Masons and
> Statuaries is frequently a slab of grit stone, to which a handle is
> attached by means of an iron strap. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict.
> Mech. 1997/1 In the moldings of stone, an iron rubber mounted on a
> wooden stock is employed for fillets, beads, and astragals. 1933 S.
> Casson Technique Early Greek Sculpt. i. i. 36 The hard stones are
> worked with abrasive rubbers for the general surfaces and outlines.
> 2008 V. E. Szabo Monstrous Fishes & Mead-dark Sea v. 152 The most
> common objects found on early sites include..maintenance implements
> including combs, smoothers, rubbers.
>
>
> A pad or roll of soft material used for rubbing and polishing, spec. a
> piece of wadding wrapped in a cloth and used in the application of
> French polish.
>
> 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 801 The polishing rubbers [for marble] are
> coarse linen cloths, or bagging, wedged tight into an iron
> planing tool.
>
>
>
> A large, coarse file, esp. one used for metalwork. In later use
> chiefly more fully rubber file.
>
> 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. i. 14 The Rough or Course Tooth'd
> File (which if it be large is called a Rubber). 1771 Invoice 3 Dec. in
> G. Washington Papers (1993) VIII. 558, 4 Smiths Rubber Files. 1837 J.
> Bennett in N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades 225 The very heavy
> files, such as smiths' rubbers, are made of the inferior marks of
> blistered steel. 1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 825
> Rubbers..measure from 12 to 18 inches long,..and are made very convex.
> 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1997/2 Rubber-file, a heavy, fish-
> bellied file, designated by weight, which varies from four to fifteen
> pounds. 1905 Dental Cosmos 47 1001/1 With a rubber file or any flat
> rough file, file the solder away outside the pins. 1916 Proc. National
> Acad. Sci. 2 128 The tools required in metallurgy, as those
> for..shaping=97hammer, file, rubbers, polishers. 2000 Modelling &
> Painting Figures 22 (caption) Begin the sanding with a rubber file.
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