Observation

Question 1a required candidates to state one cause of the following problems encountered during hand planning::

1. Shavings clogging the plane mouth
2. Plane cutter not cutting wood.

The expected response is:

1. Shavings clogging the plane mouth:
   • • back iron not bedding tightly on the cutter
   • • shavings jammed between cap iron and cutter face;
   • • thick tearing shaving.
   • • back iron set too far from cutting edge of cutter
   • • narrow mouth opening
2. Plane cutter not cutting wood:
   • • cutter not projecting below plain sole
   • • dull cutter;
   • • cap iron not fixed tightly to cutter;
   • • clogging of the plane mouth
   • • wrong sharpening angle of cutter
   • • no gap between cap iron and cutting edge of cutter

Question 1b required candidates to make a pictorial sketch of a bevel-edge chisel.
The expected answer is:

Question 1c requested candidate to list two factors of production, the expected response is:

• land
• labour
• capital
• entrepreneur/enterprise

Many of the candidates could not identify a beveled edge chisel.

Many candidates stated factors for citing a business instead of factors of production.