I want to learn how to make a molding plane, but have not found any books on the subjects. There are webpages and articles (including one in FWW) but am looking for a lot more detail. The most promising source is a dvd, Making Traditional Side Escapement Planes, (Larry Williams 2007), but there aren’t any professional or user reviews.
Fortunately, Google came up with Smartflix,com, which rents out instructional dvds. Most of the dvds are $10 a week, and they take care of shipping. There are a lot of titles, and I recognized some good (IMO) ones.
Janet
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Source of instructional DVD's
I have been renting from smartflix for a couple of years now and find them very easy to deal with. I live in Canada
and they still ship them to me free but i have to pay the return shipping which is usually less then $ 2.
I highly recommend smartflix to anybody thats want to learn something new. http://WWW.smartflix.com
Larry
Janet,
In a thread a month or so ago, a few Knotheads strongly recommended Williams' DVD. I just ordered it Friday. I found these posts by searching for:
>>> "Making traditional side escapement planes" knots <<<
Making Traditional Side Escapement Planes
by mvflaim in reply to 9619 [original] on Mon, 03/29/2010 - 07:53
Hi Mel,
I have Larry's other DVD Making Traditional Side Escapement Planes which is also an excellent video. I'd really love to make my own molding planes since I have a few missing in my set of hollows and rounds but unfortunately I can't afford the floats.
Mike
http://www.mvflaim.com
by MattInPA in reply to Anonymous [original] on Sun, 03/23/2008 - 20:31
I appreciate your lightening fast help.
For anybody who happens to be following this thread...I purchased Larry Williams new DVD "Making Traditional Side Escapement Planes" from Lie-Nielsen. I have never seen Todd Herli's DVD that I believe covers a similar topic. I am currently through about 16 of the 18 DVD chapters while making a 1/2 set along with him (18 planes total). No stone has been left unturned up until these few questions. The DVD is phenomenal and I would highly recommend it to anybody interested in making these planes. You will not need a single other source.
The planes are not too difficult and have been pretty fun. As a reference, a pair will probably take me 6 hours once I'm done with these. The instruction will not only help you build hollows and rounds. I believe there will be much carry over to different shapes.
Let the record show that I'm really not looking forward to heat treating the irons (also purchased from Lie-Nielsen).
Enough plugs
Thanks, Matt
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