Appendix C:
List and Description of Carpenter's Tools
James Dinsmore's Tool List
Memdm of Carpenters tools belonging to Mr. Jefferson April 15th 1809
15 pair hollows & rounds & 1 plane for making spouts
1 pair hollows & quarter rounds, 1 Do Snipe Bills
1 Do Side rabbit planes--dorabbit planes & astragal
3 philasters & one Spring plane--
4 pair groveing planes & 1 Cut & thrust--
2 Plow planes & 9 plow bits
5 bead planes 9, ogees & 2 quarter rounds--
2 Sash ovolos, 2 astragal Do--
1 Scotia & ovolo & 1 ogee & ovolo
1 raising plane 2 pair Base & Surbase planes--
1 architrave Do--14 Cornice planes of different kinds
3 Straight & 3 Circular Smoothing planes--1 toothing Do
4 Sets of Bench planes--5 in each set & 1 double Iron Jointer--
3 try planes for Circular work 3 steel blade Squares--
1 bench vise 2 plated gages * *1 mitre Do--brace & 15 bits--
2 pair pincers & 1 pair cutting plyers--
2 drawing knives 2 pair compasses--
4 Sockett chishels 4 mortise Do & 13 firmer Do--
19 gouges, 2 rasps 4 files, 15 gimblets & 45 Do
3 pair hand screws, 3 iron Screws for joining up work
6 augars 3 hand Saws 1 pannel Do 1 table Do 1 tenon Do--
1 Sash Do 1 dove tail Do 1 frame Do & 2 lock Saws 9 new plane irons
3 Saw files 1 axe 1 adz a bevel 1 mitre one turkey wet Stone--
James Dinsmore
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planes borrowed by Jas. Dinsmore Dinsmore James
1 Tuscan Cornice plane--
1 Sash astragal--
1 ogee & quarter round--
Bit
1 screw worth 9/. by J. Dinsmore £0.9
2 flooring __ worth 4/______ by J Nelson _________
Memdm of Carpenters tools
ADS, DLC:TJ, 1p.
Frame saw, or two-man pit saw: rip or cut plank out of a log
Back saw: for precise miters, dovetails, mortise shoulders and butt joints
Tenon saw, and dovetail saw: for cabinet makers
Adze: shaping joists and timber
Gimlet: for small holes for a screw
Auger: for boring
Scriber, or marking gauge: for marking boards
Squares and plumb lines: for squaring
Drawing tools: drawknife and spokeshave, to rough out shapes
Lathe: pole lathe, operated by foot, or wheel lathe, two-man operation
Chisels: for lathe work or cutting groves
Gouges: to carve, or reach in hard to get places
Planes: for preparing lumber, smoothing edges and faces, creating mouldings
Jack, or fore planes: ridding of thick shaving
Try, or trying plane: smooth away tracks or furrows of fore plane
Jointer: used on long boards, 26-36 inches long
Block or smoothing plane: for small areas or irregular grain, like knots, short
and wide
Moulding planes: produce intricate decorative strips of wood
Shaping planes: hollows and rounds, named after outlines of their soles;
hollow is concave; round is convex. 16 to 24 graduated sizes in a progression by quarters of inch
Rabbet plane: for cutting rabbets
Banding plane: for cutting dado
Grooving plane: cut grooves
Match planes: tongue and groove
Sash Planes: make window and door sashes
Note: Because hand tools from the period generally were of high quality and very efficient, surprisingly little expenditure of energy was required on the worker's part when the right tool was selected, provided that the tool had been properly maintained and its blades sharpened. The worker's technique of use also should be considered as an integral part of the character of a tool.