What is this tool

[James Harrison]

My daughter bought this at an antique mall today. I think it is a home made rabbit plane. Part of the handle is broken off ,or looks like it, and there is no blade. It looks well made and seems to be very old.

[Billy Chambless]

It's a plow plane, used for cutting grooves with the grain, for instance a drawer-bottom grooves or the grooves in a frame for the panel to go it.

Very handy tool -- I use mine all the time. They used to come with a set of 8 blades, but now you're lucky if there's one. From the looks of it, it wouldn't be all that hard to restore that one to usable shape -- repair the handle, scare up a few blades, and make a new wedge for it.

edit: I'm not sure about the threads, though -- they look a little rough in the first photo. Is that Teflon tape on them in the second?

[James Harrison]

The threads seem to be very dry but don't seem to have any tape on them.
Some of the threads are only partialy there and I think that whoever had the tool before has stained it and put some poly on it.
Where could I find a blade that would fit it?

[Keith Christopher]

I've seen these used mostly for putting the bottom dado in drawers, it's an easy alignment though most are fixed and not adjustable.

[David Gendron]

DL Barrett and Sons, could provide you the blades and the wedge, you might have to send the plane to them so it gets fited properly!