One more thing, the French word for rabbet is rabbat, which if you
pronounced it in a typical French fashion (like Chevrolet), would
sound like rabbah, which could easily be misheard as "rubber".
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Zachary Dillinger
The Eaton County Joinery
www.theeatoncountyjoinery.com
517-231-3374

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Zachary Dillinger
 wrote:
> Tom,
>
> Another thought has just occured to me, going along with the "misheard
> word" or mispronounciation of a word.  What if the "rubber" plane is
> really a "rebate" plane? I notice that there are no rabbet planes on
> the inventory, and this would fit in with the general area of the
> rubber plane on the list, being near other joint cutting planes, like
> the case plane, and would be useful to make windows.
> --
> Zachary Dillinger
> The Eaton County Joinery
> www.theeatoncountyjoinery.com
> 517-231-3374
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