Ogee Moulding Plane

[MrRick]

 

Introduction

 

I made this “Ogee Moulding Plane"  to accompany the  “Classic Ogee” moulding plane I posted a few days ago. 

 

The Beginning
 

This one is the same dimensions as the other one. Again, I start off by making it a little on the large side at 3-1/8” tall by 10-1/8” long and finish to 3” tall by 10” long. I will be making this plane out of two kinds of wood. But this time the top half is Spalted Maple and the bottom half is Red Maple. I’m pretty sure it’s Red Maple but not 100%  sure. It’s very hard. Again I made both halves  about 1-5/8” x 10-1/8”. 
 

Also again, I mate the two halves using a sliding Dovetail. Next, I flush the ends square. I don’t take too much off because I want enough to finish off to final dimensions at the end.

Shaping the Profile on the Bottom
 

As mentioned, this is  a a standard “Ogee” profile on my plane’s sole. There’s are many different kinds. See Fig 1.
Again it was a a lot of work but fun.
 

The edge highlighted “orange” per Fig 2 is the actual shape for making the blade.

 

 

Scratchstocking Beading
 

Like before, I scratchstock some beading where the two different kinds of Maple join at the dovetail. This is done on both sides. See Fig 3.

 

 

Mortising for the Blade
 

See Fig 4. I now begin to do the mortising for the Escapement, Mouth, Bed, Cheek, and details.  I use my LV dovetails saw and Sweetheart chisels initially. Then cleanup with my LV large router.

 

I now begin mortising for the Escapement area from the top down using a drill press jig that I made, per Fig 5. This allows me to drill out most of the meat for the Bed and Wedge Face angles .

 

 

Here are the indiviual piece of the jig per Fig 6.

 

 

Using the jig, I drill three  ¼” dia holes. One for the 50° (top hole in detail); One for  60° (bottom hole in detail) and a center one. All meat is removed between these with chisels and my homemade float. See Fig 7.

 

 

Making the Blade
 

Next, I cut out the blade as shown per Fig 8. I place the blank into my escapement cavity for a fit check before continuing to shape per Fig 9. I then fit the blade in properly and as before, I trace the soles face onto the blade using a hooked awl. The blade is shown finished per Fig 10.

 

 

In Fig 11, here’s the completed Blade and Wedge. Ready for service!

 

 

Finishing
 

I now proceed to applying my finish. Initially, I apply two coats of a 1 lb cut of shellac to all surfaces. Then I apply two coats of 2 lb cut of shellac.
Then….I proceed to French Polish with shellac on all surfaces. Here’s the start per Fig 12, 13 and 14. French polishing turns out to be mindboggling beautiful! 

 

 

 

 

Next, Per Fig 15,  I Polish all sides with Wood Butter. Wow! It turned out beautiful. The plane feels velvety soft in my hand!

 

 

Testing
 

There are two types of moulding planes. They are “Sprung” and “Unsprung”. Usually on the nose of moulding planes there are lines scribed onto the surface that are called “Spring Lines”. See Fig 16. The purpose of Spring lines is to tell the woodworker how to tilt the plane so that these lines are vertical and horizontal.  Then while holding this tilt,  the woodworker then planes. See Fig 17.
 

Spring Lines are necessary for complex blade cutting shapes and make it far more easy to plane the shape. If there are no spring lines then usually the blades cutting shape if far less complex and spring lines not necessary to execute the cut.

 

 

 

This is the result, Fig 18, of the moulding after  4 -5 passes with the plane.

 

 

Hope you liked this! 
 
Thanks for Looking!!
 

Cheers!
 

MrRick 

[Grandpadave52]

10 minutes ago, MrRick said:

Wow! It turned out beautiful

That's an understatement Rick. It's gorgeous. Love that splated maple top. It really makes the plane. Your finish and polish level on the iron is amazing.

 

BTW, love that vice. Guessing you've made it also?

[Gerald]

Very nice build. Had heard the term spring lines but never knew what it meant. Thanks for the explanation and pictures of processes too.

[lew]

Amazing!!!!!

[MrRick]

Thanks Grandpadave52! It all turned out very nice. More important is that it planes beautifully as well!

Yes that is a small pony vice I made. I've made four different sizes.  It is used along with one of the others when I'm planing long boards. Cheers! 

[MrRick]

Thank you Gerald! Glad you liked it. 

[MrRick]

lew  .... glad you like it! 

[MrRick]

Grandpadave52... here's a photo of a couple of my homemade vises in use.

Here I'm going to hand plane all four sides and square it up. 

[Grandpadave52]

21 minutes ago, MrRick said:

Grandpadave52... here's a photo of a couple of my homemade vises in use

Nicely done Rick. Very nice shop cabinets too. Thanks for sharing.

[MrRick]

Thank you Grandpadave52!  Here's a better view of my shop. I built everything. 

 

[Grandpadave52]

9 hours ago, MrRick said:

Here's a better view of my shop. I built everything. 

Very nice shop Rick. Quite tidy as well. Appreciate you sharing.

[MrRick]

Grandpadave52 my shop is in a 2 car "L" shaped garage. It sits nicely to one side next to our two cars. In the winter I can work quite comfortably with cars in and garage door down. But in the summer or anytime really, I can back the cars out and use the whole garage. My TS, planer, etc., are mobile.