Plane Gallery

"Ship Modellers"

These "thumb-planes"
were made from memory,
of Honduran Rosewood,
in the 1970s.

In 1939, the first year of
the war, Jim worked in the
ship's Joiners' Fitting Shop.
Here the modellers made a
model of each ship in the
shipyard.

These planes are curved,
round, hollow, and concave.

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