Moulding planes

[callumjacobs]

Could someone please explain too me what types of moulding planes there are, and what they're used for?
I see all these different types, e.g. Oovlo, Ogee.
I just wanted too know all the types of moulding planes like the examples listed above, as I can't find any information on this anywhere.
- Callum.

 

[undergroundhunter]

Could someone please explain too me what types of moulding planes there are, and what they're used for?
I see all these different types, e.g. Oovlo, Ogee.
I just wanted too know all the types of moulding planes like the examples listed above, as I can't find any information on this anywhere.
- Callum.

This is a very broad question.
Complex moulding planes (ovolo, lambs tounge and ogee etc.) like are of pretty much endless variety and sizes some harder to find than others, these can be used to make a set profile in a set size. Then there are bead planes (side bead, centre bead and reeding planes etc.). After that you have hollows and rounds these used along with beading planes can make any of the mouldings that come in a complex plane and any others you can think up.

Those are the very basics, the subject is far to broad to put in one post.

There are a couple of books available on mouldings and planes one by Matt Bickford from Lost Art Press, there is also a download available from shopwoodworking.com presented by Bill Anderson I can highly recommend this as he shows how to refurb and use the planes.

Matt

 

[Corneel]

"The wooden plane" from John M. Whelan has all the information and an overview. I think this book is reprinted lately?

Edit: Indeed, newly pressed. http://www.astragalpress.com/John_Whelan_Books.htm

 

[AndyT]

As said, this is a very broad question.

One way to answer it is to visit a historic house from before about 1850 and look around you at the joinery. All the architraves, skirtings, panels, doors, windows etc will have moulded (non-square) edges and will have been shaped by hand planing. On a smaller scale, so will most of the furniture.

The books mentioned are good. There are reviews on here at

https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=40419.html

and at

https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/book-review-mouldings-in-practice-t64221.html.

You could also watch some videos, such as this one by Roy Underhill, "making marvelous moldings"
http://video.unctv.org/video/2239816624/

 

[Cheshirechappie]

Hello Callum - welcome to the forum!

I can't really add much. Most architectural and furniture mouldings can be made with a selection of hollows and rounds, supplemented by a couple of rebate planes, a few side beads and maybe a pair of snipe-bills and quarter-rounds. The 'complex' moulding planes that come up quite frequently were generally used by joiners churning out enough mouldings on such things as door surrounds, skirting boards, dado rails and cornices to fit out an entire house, or many houses; and by joiners making sash windows.

Moulding shape names (ovolo, scotia and so on) confuse me, but I've found a short illustrated guide - http://www.hardwood-lumber.com/moulding ... ng_shapes/ -which whilst not entirely comprehensive, shows the basic ones.

(Edit to add - an enthusiastic +1 for John Whelan's book mentioned above. As books on wooden planes go, it's as near to being the bible as any book yet published; it's not cheap at £35, but it's very comprehensive. Classic Hand Tools stock it - https://www.classichandtools.com/acatal ... ooks-.html )

 

[bugbear]

Could someone please explain too me what types of moulding planes there are, and what they're used for?
I see all these different types, e.g. Oovlo, Ogee.
I just wanted too know all the types of moulding planes like the examples listed above, as I can't find any information on this anywhere.
- Callum.

Moulding planes are just named after the moulding they create. Simple.

So do you want to know about mouldings, how they're used, and what the period variations are?

That's a design and history question (and a perfectly good one) not a tool question.

BugBear

 

[callumjacobs]

Thank you everyone for answering my broad question as simply as possible, also thank you for the links too the books and the link too the basics about the moulding planes.~ callum

 

[Jacob]

..... The 'complex' moulding planes that come up quite frequently were generally used by joiners churning out enough mouldings on such things as door surrounds, skirting boards, dado rails and cornices to fit out an entire house, or many houses; and by joiners making sash windows.....

And extensively used by furniture makers until they started going out of fashion 100 or so years ago. Particularly on larger items - book cases, cupboards etc tending towards architectonic scale.
I had to look up architectonic I wasn't sure what it meant!

 

[swb58]

It's a good word for Scrabble whatever it means

 

[Cheshirechappie]

If the architectonic plates start shifting, do their buildings fall down?

 

[Dovetaildave]

"Architectonic"
That's what the Adams brothers used to drink isn't it ? :lol: