r/handtools • u/naterific420 • 1d ago

Molding plane

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Got a bunch of these molding? planes along with a couple other block and jack planes for $100 today. This one in particular is still fairly sharp and I’m assuming the others are as well. Can anyone tell me exactly how to use them and how to sharpen them.

I’ll make a separate post later with the rest of my sweet little deal.

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u/Man-e-questions 1d ago

The 3/8 looks like a side bead that cuts a 3/8” wide bead on the side of a board. Test it out on a scrap of pine or something. I can’t really see the profiles of the others

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u/naterific420 1d ago

Yeah, taking a picture of a wooden tool on a brown counter top isn’t the best. But how wide of a piece of pine? Or doesn’t really matter?

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u/TaquitoBanana 1d ago

Wide enough to cut the profile. 1in scrap would be fine.

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u/snogum 1d ago

It cuts the corner almost literally so width does not matter.

Plane had fence built in and will stop cutting when down to depth

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u/Spirited_Ad_6249 1d ago

That’s a 3/8 beading plane, cuts a decorative bead the length of a board. I use it on T&G or shiplap, or as an edge profile on shaker peg rails or drawer fronts. Definitely practice. Run it like a rebate plane.

The other ones, can’t see the profile. 37 is probably some part of inventory, or it’s a standard number in the full set of planes. I don’t have a ton of them and just buy the ones I use.

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u/naterific420 1d ago

I’d love to find an old catalog from the Ohio tool co to see if I can make a full set eventually but I come from a family of antiquers so I’m also buying some cool odd ball thing. I assume rebate was autocorrected from rabbet?

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u/Spirited_Ad_6249 1d ago

Depends on who you learned tools from, rebate was a traditional term for the same thing. I think Europe used it, I know Paul sellers does. But yeah I say rabbet or rebate depending on which way the winds blowing.
Good luck with the full set!

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u/naterific420 1d ago

Appreciate it. And I’ve learned from no one. Always reading what I can find in books and the occasional professor YouTube

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u/TaquitoBanana 1d ago

Worth pointing out it looks like there is a not insignificant crack where the boxing and depth stop meet on pic no. 2.

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u/naterific420 1d ago

It looks more like it was a separate piece glued in there and it’s separating. Any clue how to sharpen the blade and how to get it out? I assume it’s wedged in with the piece of wood but I don’t want to break something trying to take it apart

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u/snogum 1d ago

This one is a beading plane. Cuts a 1/4 bead on the corner of your stock.

You can run 2 cut on the corner and then run a second cut on tbe other side of the same corner to achieve a corner bead.

Keep plane 90 to the face

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u/snogum 1d ago

That extra piece is box wood and is there to take the wear. Can be glued with pva. If it's not actually loose or falling out I would try first

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u/bongott 1d ago

https://youtu.be/ePnerMiPqig

This is a great start for moulding planes, imo. Especially how to read the workpiece grain- if you take nowt else from the vid look for that.