B66-666 SET OF PLANEMAKING TOOLS. Akron. This unique set of what appear to be commercial planemaking tools consists of four heavy steel panels, each 10" by 24" with holes at the corners to be fastened to a wall or workbench. Each plate has a rosewood and brass template along the top, with cutters in the center flanked by depth stops, to cut different sash profiles which are represented. It looks like the purpose was to fasten the panels down and then push a wooden piece along the template, which would act as a mother plane. An 11" long device, also rosewood and brass, looks like it was used to push and guide the work along the templates. Lastly, there is a 9-1/2 pound brass plane with 6 irons to shape the finial of a molding plane wedge, and a well-used small hammer apparently used to secure the wedges on the heavy plane. All are marked "Akron" and were clearly part of a set, although the finial cutting plane shows signs of much more use than the set of plates, and may have preceded it. We know nothing more about its origin - it was found in a barn in southern Pennsylvania but it was clearly professionally made. Steve speculates that it may have been developed by a commercial window manufacturer in the early 1900s. From the collection of Steve Dice. Fine 1000-2000