Reply To: Information request about wooden tongue and groove planes
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Hi Igor. I don’t own and T&G planes, but I do have the Garrett Hack book, “The Hand Plane Book”. It’s an excellent reference and I learned a lot from it. The section on T&G planes is actually entitled “Match Planes” because they were typically made as two separate planes and sold in pairs. One plane cut the groove and the other cut the tongue. The book does mention that the planes that cut both the tongue and the groove (two irons in the same plane) are less common and look like two planes joined together.
The plane in your pictures I think is a plow plane. It has an adjustable fence, so it can create grooves at any distance from an edge. The Hack book says that the wooden match planes were made in pairs for a specific board thickness. So you might find a pair that puts a T&G in 1/4 thick boards, or 3/4″ thick boards, etc. They would have fixed fences. If you were to look for T&G planes, you should really find some that were made specifically in pairs.
I hope this helps.
p.s., the wedge is in backwards in the first picture in your post.