A Moulding Plane is a term used to describe
a wooden plane with a shaped sole.
A moulding plane is used to form a shape or mould on a piece of wood.
Such shapes or moulds are and have been used on furniture and architecture for
centuries.
Examples of common moulds produced by moulding planes includes beads, ovolo,
scotia and ogee.
There are three main types of moulding planes, single moulds, combo moulds /
combination moulds
(anything more than two moulds combined is referred to as a complex mould)
and hollow & round shaping moulds.
Examples of a single mould include: beads, ovolo, scotia and ogee.
Examples of a combo mould include: ovolo and scotia, grecian ogee and bead,
quirk ogee and astragal.
A moulding plane consists of a wooden body normally made from Beech, and
usually one blade and one blade
securing wedge. There have been dual blade moulding planes and
triple blade moulding planes.
Moulding planes have been used for hundreds of years with the majority seen
today dating from 1750 - 1930.
A workmans tool-chest would often include 30-50+ wooden planes with each wooden
moulding plane setup, ready to produce a different mould or different sized mould.
During this long manufacturing time millions of planes were produced as such they
surface very regularly today.
The following is a list of moulding plane profiles and the moulds they produce:
For more info on each mould and to see a single page showing the many types and profiles of moulding planes, see the wooden planes page.
From about 1680 the first known manufacturers mark was put on wooden moulding planes,
this caught on, ever since then there have been hundreds of manufacturers following
suit, marking their name on the front nose.
Over time this become more in depth with manufacturers also putting the town/city of
manufacture and even the address of manufacture.
For more info on this and dating wooden planes, see one of the Goodman's British
Planemakers books.
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