Quote Originally Posted by Graham Haydon View Post
I wonder just how many planes a house carpenter would need once timber was purchased accurately sawn and things like skirting, architraves and door linings would be machine planed? I can't imagine they'd need long planes very often, perhaps a jack and smoother would be ample for most on site work of the late 19th century. Something to stick a rebate or a groove now and again could be hand. I know that in the early 20th century you could go to merchants and buy ready moulded sash section to be joined as required.

Long planes excel at edge jointing. Building houses usually entails making lots of doors and windows. Even if they bought machine-cut linings and such, the wood would move a lot before the house was finished.

It seems a simple connection, to me.