For You Lot Wonderful Sometime Moulding Planes.

At the recent David Stanley Auction I was treated to a history lesson on the making of moulding planes past times Richard Arnold in addition to 1 of his friends. This is a laid upwardly of half dozen 'mother' planes from which the soles of moulding planes received their finally shaping. Mother planes are really rare in addition to valuable in addition to to notice half dozen inward such proficient status was a existent find.

 
The WCLA postage stamp stands for Warwick County Lunatic Asylum which is where these planes resided for many years. The maker was William Kendall (1764-1840) in addition to these were made inward the early on 1800's. For much of his working life he worked for John Green equally a bird maker. All the planes were stamped.

In add-on to woman rear planes for the sole profile in that place were a set out of other planes used inward the shaping procedure in addition to you lot tin grade notice run across these were clearly employed inward the making of the woman rear planes.

These foreign looking beasts were used for the chamfers on each side of the top.

The 4 planes below were used inward the shaping of the wedges in addition to nosotros had a long give-and-take over this.

Now if it were me I would accept an appropriate sized board in addition to cutting all the profiles for the wedge, earlier sawing off the wedges to the appropriate width. But it would appear that offcuts from the bird making were clamped together inward a row in addition to and hence profiled, I was shown a museum photograph which backed this up.

In this finally photograph you lot tin grade notice run across a footling prick hole on the wedge. All the wedges of a laid upwardly would create got this inward precisely the same house in addition to and hence each of the wedges was fitted downwards to the mark. This meant that when a laid upwardly was consummate all the wedges were a perfect match, truthful craftsmanship!

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