Hi
I am struggling to consistently cut accurate cross-grain chamfers for my moulding planes. The complication is that they are terminated cuts, so pretty much have to be done with a chisel of some sort. Larry Williams does them by chiselling the edge to a line. There’s a video on YouTube of the last moulding plane maker at Marples in 1962 doing them, and he just whips them off with a single blow on a butt chisel, by eye.
Here‘s what I’d like to achieve, by Matt Bickford…..
heres a recent one I did using the chiselling along the arris method:
But more often than not it wanders off course.
Here’s a chamfer using a butt chisel along the grain.
Any tips anyone has for getting this to be good and consistent would be very welcome.
Thanks
Steve
I am struggling to consistently cut accurate cross-grain chamfers for my moulding planes. The complication is that they are terminated cuts, so pretty much have to be done with a chisel of some sort. Larry Williams does them by chiselling the edge to a line. There’s a video on YouTube of the last moulding plane maker at Marples in 1962 doing them, and he just whips them off with a single blow on a butt chisel, by eye.
Here‘s what I’d like to achieve, by Matt Bickford…..
![IMG_0749.jpeg IMG_0749.jpeg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/ukworkshop/data/attach/141/141497-IMG-0749.jpeg)
heres a recent one I did using the chiselling along the arris method:
![IMG_4101.jpeg IMG_4101.jpeg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/ukworkshop/data/attach/141/141498-IMG-4101.jpeg)
But more often than not it wanders off course.
Here’s a chamfer using a butt chisel along the grain.
![IMG_4099.jpeg IMG_4099.jpeg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/ukworkshop/data/attach/141/141499-IMG-4099.jpeg)
Any tips anyone has for getting this to be good and consistent would be very welcome.
Thanks
Steve