A good book is 'Making Traditional Wooden Planes' by Joh Whelan (Astragal
Press). Looks like you can get one new from Amazon(!) or AbeBooks has used
copies for between $20 and $25.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Heyza
Sent: Monday, December 6, 2021 3:20 PM
To: 'Frank Filippone' ; 'Tools Old'
Subject: RE: [oldtools] Moulding Plane question,,,, Specifically, how do the
wedges fit?
Frank,
Flatsawn is fine. Fitting for a dado plane is a little trickier due to the
skewed iron. What you want is good contact across the length of the iron and a
tight fit front to back (no wobble).
Dennis Heyza
New Baltimore MI
-----Original Message-----
From: oldtools@g... On Behalf Of Frank Filippone
Sent: Monday, December 6, 2021 2:08 PM
To: Tools Old
Subject: Re: [oldtools] Moulding Plane question,,,, Specifically, how do the
wedges fit?
Thanks for the confirmation, Kirk and Matthew. .... I have 2 planes, and 1 set
of wedges.... On the wedges I do have, they seem to fit not so well. They jerk
when tapped in place. I think the problem is the thickness, so now that I snow
I can take off a shaving on the width ( which will also flatten the wedge a bit,
as the problem may be warpage of the wedge rather than too thick.)
The original wedges will act as a starting pattern for the missing ones....
last (?) question: what is the proper grain orientation for the wedges? I seem
to think that quarter sawn would be the best.... flat sawn the worst....
This is as looking at the flat side of the wedge....
Sorry that I do not have a book to help me on this... can anyone name a
reference book that would help me?
Frank Filippone
BMWRed735i@G...
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