48.The Sash Ovolo Plane
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- čas přidán 2. 07. 2023
- Originally designed (and still useful) for window-making, this is a great plane for putting an interesting edge on table-tops, counters, or any other horizontal surface.
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Excellent video thank you, greetings from the UK, as a restorer I still use some of these old planes, that one you are showing us today is some 190 yrs old!! Amazing. Thank you for posting.
Glad you enjoyed it
Brilliant! It is a true pleasure to see you work these tools
Many thanks!
Always enjoy your videos.
I appreciate that!
Wow thanks Graham what an enjoyable video. Thanks so much. Tom Toomey. UK I used to be a cabinet maker 30 years ago but changed my profession. I have many of these planes. I'm restoring my windows in my cottage c1680 and made new windows 33 years ago but can't for the life of me remember how I made them 😂 I'll be studying your vids now. Kind regards , Tom
Thanks, and good luck!
Dear Mr. Blackburn***, thank you for yet another excellent video! I listened to your comment regarding the complaint made by a viewer that these planes were gone to dealers before he/she gets them. There may be some validity to that comment, however, I think they are still widely available. Additionally, generally speaking, even if you are forced to purchase one from a dealer on an online auction site, you are still getting (in many cases) a good plane that you can use, then hand down to your grandchildren, and much cheaper than buying a new one! Much easier, in most cases, than making one!
***I have one request to add: in my mind, the issue is NOT the availability of these fine planes, rather it is the proper sharpening of the irons and the proper set-up and use that stymies most woodworkers.
***Please consider a video on the proper sharpening of the iron and set-up/use of these planes. Best wishes from a long-time admirer of your books (and videos).
will do!
Beautiful work, Graham! Thanks a lot for the lesson! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Thanks, you too!
Graham you inspire me with every video . The more I watch your program the deeper I get in hand tool woodworking , more importantly, with the wooden planes . Fabulous job my generous friend. God bless you sir .
Great to hear!
Fantastic video and very informative! I plan to build an end table for my living room soon out of mahogany with a flame maple border and something like this would be lovely for the edge.
Sounds great!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Nice video.
Thanks!
Thank you
You're welcome
Thank you Graham. I’ve power routers, but want to learn and do more hand tool Woodworking. Now I’m going to start looking at setting up my own set of old wood sash,etc. planes.
Go for it!
Very very interesting, thank you for your time and effort.
My pleasure!
Too true my friend. I live in a tool "poor" area where the closest flea market is hundreds of miles and a long ferry ride away. In the last month I still have managed to obtain 7 molding planes and 2 wood bodied skewed rebate planes for between $5 and $10 Canadian. It has taken a little ingenuity and a lot of determination as I don't buy tools online. Thank you for the reminder of how to sharpen the irons. I had forgotten that.
Good luck!
Genial Klasse!
Vielen Dank Herr Blackburn, bleiben Sie gesund
Bitte schoen. Gleichfalls!
These many moulding planes still do fine work and I've picked up a couple here and there. Have you (or if you have not) would you do a video on the finer points of sharpening the irons that go with these planes? Some of them leave me wondering if one must have an equal number of various slip stones and such.
12:42 He mentions that the iron must only be sharpened on the back side, not the curved side.
you only need to do the back
We'll try something more detailed in a future episode.
@@gjbmunc Thank you!
Thank you for the video. I started in earnest trying to accumulate a "full" assortment of vintage wood tools about two years ago and I acquired one of these mid last year. It was my first wood plane rebuild and it was in terrible rust encrusted condition but I got it cleaned up pretty well but never really knew how to use it until now. I'll have to give the profile a check and start using it. Should give my Stanley 45 and 55 a break lol.
Also, in my local area there is a bit of a lack of tools due to the population distribution focusing most of these tools into the outport communities. Drive an hour away and they start popping up all over, but in town I've never seen any outside of someone's collection.
Great!
I had no idea about the distinction between roman circle-based design and greek elliptical design. Googling around it seems that sometimes even parabolas were used, which is very interesting to me. There are so many different kinds of curves, and while they look similar on paper, they make a real difference to the eye when seen in three dimensions at different scales or in large numbers.
Good point!
Excellent tutorial , thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for a great video. It was very inspiring. I've still to try my molding planes. I stayed away from buying them to begin with, because I focused on building up my workshop and because I had no idea where to start, but I acquired a few last year. Now I have a better idea what to look for, and I know a few I really want, but patience, patience ... :^)
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for a very interesting and informative video
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you.
You're welcome!
As always, thanks
You're welcome!
I've got a matching pair on sash planes By Moir, Glasgow (1836-1875) which i about 20 mile away from Glasgow , both No1 and No2 plane I know a lot of people have different ideas to what the numbers mean
Many planemakers used numbers in different ways - for measurements, series numbers, etc.
Thank you sir! Great tips and another awesome episode. I have a sash ovolo (didn’t know the proper name) mine does not have a spring line on it. I have been using it wrong. Very helpful to know the depth stop part goes horizontal. I just thought it was worn funny.
Now you know! Good!
Thanks Graham. Do these planes need to be made in left and right for grain direction, or are they designed to mold the wood in lengths before its made into frames?
Typically made to plane straight or single-grain direction material.
I often use a sash ovolo when making picture frames. Speaking of which, I need to make 3 frames now.
Good luck!
Exactly what I have planned! I need to make a new frame for a picture my grandfather painted. It was destroyed when I moved years ago and is hanging frameless, which is a shame. It's not actually a very good painting (although he was professional and did make a living from it, but everyone can have a bad day) but it has a sentimental value to me.
Thank you Graham, always enjoy the content and look forward to each new release. I have quite a number of moulding planes and should probably know this but wanted to ask about determining the width of the stock that each plane should be used on? I know some planes have numbers on the heel but have never fully understood if I'm honest. My main use is picture frames but I am keen to make some sash windows. I guess the width of stock will determine the depth of cut as regards where the depth stop engages etc. Thanks again
Stock different things by different makers. It's up to you what works best.
Daft question but would it also help to slightly chamber the edge so that you don't have to take as much material off?
Absolutely!
Interesting. I recently acquired a pair of older compound ovalo sash planes (and the sash fillister) and was asked about sharpening. He’s a well known collector, plane maker, etc and when i asked if you only sharpen the back and he said “if it were only that simple!” And explained how to sharpen to maintain the shape. I often use hollows and rounds and less often the complex planes so i understand one should avoid risking reshaping the curves, especially considering how often one needs to sharpen (as opposed to honing) vs how often complex planes are used, but could you go into sharpening complex planes more?
Will definitely try to do this in a later episode.
thank you in my area it's hard to find good planes. reasonable price
Try google.
Ovolo comes from ovo, that means "egg" in portuguese, so it has the shape of an egg🥚🐣🍳🐔
Exactly right!
Is it not true that most windows are now dbl glazed min making these planes redundant?
Still plenty of single glaze windows out there.
2023-1832=191.
Thanks!