Thread: Looking for Moulding Plane Pics

Ok, if you tell me where you're getting the web instructions from (I'd just like to know ) and what exactly you want made clear.
Is it to do with wedging the blade or the amount of clearance at the mouth etc.?

Hope these are helpful.

Also hope they aren't too big/small/dark/blurry.......

Have a look here Andrew:

The Village Carpenter: Making Moulding Planes

Cheers
SG

Seanz - very helpful thanks. What is/was troubling me is the blade profile for something like a standard cornice shape - how is the blade shaped and is the sole just flat?

SG - I'm a fan of that blog, but somehow missed that article. Will give it a read, cheers

Just finished that link SG pointed me at - it's a lot clearer but my head is having a lot of trouble matching the blade shapes to the end results - I have some scrap tool steel around so might make a simple blade up in one of these shapes if I get time and see if I can get my head around it once I see it in action!

Lie Nielsen have just released a tutorial on moulding plane making - in this case a grooving plane - that you might find interesting.
It is in .pdf format and can be opened from this link:

http://www.lie-nielsen.com/pdf/FWWGroovingPlanes.pdf

Cheers
SG

Hi Andrew,
I'm not sure but I think you might have missed the point that moulding planes USUALLY only form a single, simple, basic shape of USUALLY less than 25mm width and multiple planes are used consecutvely to form more complex shapes such as a cornice. The complication in blade shapes results from the blade not being square to the work surface and so, for example, an elliptical blade shape is required to form a circular section in the workpiece. My grandfather made his own moulding planes and the blades were ground free hand. He then matched the sole of the moulding plane to the blade and hoped that he would ge a complete projects worth of moulding out of it because he probably couldn't get an exact match if he had to create a new blade!
The attched link shows how Terry Gordon (HNT planes) uses moulding planes to create a complex moulding.....

HNT GORDON - USING HOLLOWS

fletty

Andrew
there are a number of DVDs covering the making of hollows and rounds or molding planes, one that immediately comes to mind is
Making Traditional Side Escapement Planes
I suggest you buy or borrow a copy

In general, the sole of a molding plane is shaped as the negative of the profile you want to make
you poke the blade blank through the mouth, trace the sole profile on the blade,
grind the blade to the profile you've traced, then heat treat the blank,
poke it back through the mouth and check that the profiles still match,
then grind a bevel and sharpen the blade
assemble the plane and start making shavings

hope this helps

I was in the back of nowhere shopping for SWMBO'd birthday, and the shop owner had 4 without blades or wedges. I talked him down from $25 for the four to $10, and will have a go at making the missing parts before I tackle one from scratch. It did help a lot to see one up close and see how it worked!