CHINESE CARPENTER'S PLANES : Carpenter's tools in Jiangnan district, China Part 2

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to make clear the historic outline of carpenter's planes in Jiangnan district from Ming-Qing era to today. According to field work and studies of Exploitation of the Works of Nature (Tian gong kai wu) and Lu Ban jing etc., most of planes what we can see today have been existed in Mine era. In China not only drawingknives but also adzes, chisels may have been an early stage in development of the planes.