This video was VERY helpful and informative! Thank you so much. As a retired professor, I’d like to say that you are an excellent teacher. Please keep up the great work and I’ll keep watching!
Thank you so much for your kind words! It´s funny, I quit my job last week to go back to university for another couple years to become a teacher. Your comment gives me another confirmation that this decision is the right one.
I am very impressed with your information, your presentation and skill. I now have 46 wood body planes that have been handed down generation to generation within my family. After searching for ways to restore and repair them your advice and techniques are the best. Thank you for sharing the skill
Excellent videos, I have learned more about moulding planes and getting them ready for use watching your videos than i have from watching any other videos on youtube. Can not wait for number 3. Thankyou.
Thank you so much! I somehow lost the motivation to work on the third part, but comments like yours made me go to the workshop again yesterday and resume filming. The video should be out in the next weeks!
I have a whole stack of planes I need to restore. I bought a huge lot of tools from an old woodworker. He sold it cheap (very cheap), but he knew what he was doing. He just wanted for his tools to be used. So my next step is to slowly work my way through the planes and restore them. Some of the old moulding planes really need some work! My next step is to make new planes for all the many plane irons I've bought 😅 I like the idea about making the planes I need rather than just buying them. And then I can make some special planes I otherwise would have a hard time finding. Thank you for a great video! Kind regards from a fellow woodworker north of you in Denmark.
Plane making is high up on my workshop bucket list as well, but right now I don´t spend a lot time with woodworking. Maybe someday I´ll return to this hobby and do videos again :)
Thx for posting, a very good and useful tutorial. 👌 It inspires me to go ahead with some vintage wooden planes that i used for decorative purposes. So firstly some Work to be done👍
In case you want to try this, I have been successful in steam bending molding planes back to straight. Basically; I steamed for an hour and a half, then clamped them straight between two construction grade 2 × 4's. I also put in old plastic gift cards / credit cards / etc. to act as shims, in three positions - heel, toe and middle by the bend, to slightly over bend and counter spring back. If interested in more details, please contact me. Thanks for the videos, enjoy viewing them.
Great idea, never thought about bending a plane straight. If I get another warped moulding plane, I definitely will try this! Was your plane made from beech wood?
I believe the first plane I performed this technique on was beech, it was a beading plane probably from the 19th century, but the second one, at over 10 inches long & with a very thin iron & probably from the 17th century, doesn't look to be beech.
What a great video! I have watched lots of videos on moulding planes and no one talks about this topic you demonstrated. Plenty of videos on matching the cutter to the shape of the sole, but nothing about checking the length of the sole for changes. After the 3rd video on cutters, maybe one on what to do if the plane jams in the mouth. Check that the blade is being held correctly?
Thank you so much for your kind words! Really appreciated and heart-warming. That is a good idea! I´ll see if I have a plane that frequently clogs. By the way, your comment under the first video motivated me to finally edit and upload this second part.
I really like your presentations! Honest and straight forward! Great job! I would like to see someone make wedges for these... seems like there has to be a better way than I have been doing!.. I have dado planes that the wedges and scoring blades that are missing. I made some blades out of a circular saw blade, but am not happy with the fit.
Thanks Greg! I have some moulding planes that are missing their wedges and/or irons, so I could make videos about this topic, I guess. If I only had the time... someday, I promise!
Glad you like the video! I have no official training in woodworking, but learned everything I know from different sources and a lot of trail and error. Besides some videos from James Wright here on RU-vid (WoodByWright), the most information came from books by John M. Wheelan ("The wooden plane: its history, form and function") and Matthew S. Bickford ("Mouldings in practice"). Christopher Schwarz also mentions some useful tips in his book "The anarchists tool chest".
I have an antique round one, for making hollows. Seemingly the same maker as yours, with that crown and initials as maker sign. Do you know who made them, and around what year?
In this batch of planes, there are two that are marked with the crown symbol (typical for Dutch plane makers). One has the initials “S.V.E.”, which stands for S. van Embden. Although it must have been a big company (their catalogue from 1920 lists more than 2,000 different tools and machines!), I did not find more information on when it was founded etc. The other plane is marked with “J.N.”, which refers to Jan Nooitgedagt. He started planemaking in 1865 and soon became the biggest manufacturer of woodworking tools in the Netherlands. After a lot of reorganization and changes of ownership, the factories were closed in 2004. Based on the style of both planes, I assume they are about 100 years old. But this only is a guess based on a few other planes I have that I know the production date of. If you look for more information about European toolmakers, I can highly recommend Wolfgang Jordan´s page (www.holzwerken.de/sitemap.phtml).
@@pjtfurniture Thank you 🙌 ! Ideed, it was made by Nooitgedagt (I made research after posting the comment). I'm NL based so it figures :) You can still find lots of wooden, mostly coffin shaped planes, over here in thrift/2nd hand shops. And they're made for sure, in last year's of production.
@jackhill436 Well, I do my best to not wipe away the history of the tools, but to clean them up to use them again. In my opinion, that's the best thing you can do to keep the tools' history alive - instead of just storing "useless" tools on a shelf to look at. Another factor is that the planes I restored here are nothing special: no one-of-a-kind objects, not very old, not from historically important plane makers.
