October 27, 2025Oct 27 This post was recognized by John Morris! MrRick was awarded the badge 'Great Content' and 10 points. "Thank you for sharing this wonderful build Rick, you keep knocking it out of the park with your skill set and beautiful hand tool builds." I wanted to be able to make beads anywhere and decided to make a "Center Bead Moulding Plane". To use it, you scribe a line or pair of lines where on the wood you want the bead with a knife or marking gauge cutter that matches on center across the opening on the Moulding plane's blade. If you want, you can go over these lines with some Snipe Bill Moulding planes being careful not to go too deep. You can also clamp a scrap piece of wood as a fence where you want to place the bead and run the moulding plane this way. I use this method. It produces a nice bead in 3 passes. I made this plane with side escapement. Here's what the underside looks like for the bead profile. On top, in front of the wedge, It has a strike button inlaid for blade removal. It's made out of Dogwood. The upper body is Pine and lower is Spalted Maple. It's assembled by a sliding hand cut dovetail like I've done with some of my other moulding planes. I've done scratchstock beading to hide parting line between the upper and lower halves. The Spalted Maple was fairly gnarly and yielded some tearout here and there but it's livable. Thanks for looking! Cheers! MrRick
October 27, 2025Oct 27 Thanks for another awesome post! I think it would be neat to see a family picture of the entire handmade plane clan!
October 27, 2025Oct 27 Author Lew.... Nice idea but how do you suggest that I do this? I make one after the other. Sometimes a month or two between making them. Hmmmm.
October 27, 2025Oct 27 3 hours ago, MrRick said: Lew.... Nice idea but how do you suggest that I do this? I make one after the other. Sometimes a month or two between making them. Hmmmm. I thought you might have them on shelves in your shop.
October 27, 2025Oct 27 Author Lew...I have what I've made in boxes that I specially made for them. I'll post at photo later.
October 28, 2025Oct 28 Author 20 hours ago, lew said: I thought you might have them on shelves in your shop. Lew.... no ... I store them in a special box that I made for them. I believe you saw this. Check it out here. Edited October 28, 2025Oct 28 by MrRick
October 28, 2025Oct 28 4 minutes ago, MrRick said: Lew.... no ... I store them in a special box that I made for them. I believe you see this. Check it out here. Thanks!
October 28, 2025Oct 28 2 hours ago, MrRick said: Lew.... No worries. Do you like the box? I have two now. Very handy. Yes they are really nice. Love doing hand cut dovetails. My problem box is I forget what I put in them. Open storage is better for my CRS
October 28, 2025Oct 28 Author I have most everything I've made in boxes with silicone packs to minimize rust. Where I live there's alot of rain and moisture. Funny..I can just look and know what's in each box.
October 28, 2025Oct 28 I need to take a speed reading course to keep up just with the plane posts. Agree with Lew, would love to see pics of your stable of planes.
October 29, 2025Oct 29 Author 3 hours ago, Gunny said: You know they make labels. 😀 Real funny... funny man! Lol.
October 29, 2025Oct 29 Author 1 hour ago, Grandpadave52 said: I need to take a speed reading course to keep up just with the plane posts. Agree with Lew, would love to see pics of your stable of planes. I'll line them up, take a shot, and post it. But I'll still make indiviual posts to tell y'all about them.
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