Restoring antique moulding planes - Part 1/3

[@seafoodpizza]

Just found a box full of these in the shed. Lovely video, master at work

[@pjtfurniture]

So kind, thank you!

[@jimferrell1791]

Very enjoyable and informative. Also very well organized and presented.

[@makenchips]

Excellent review and discusion! Well done! For the steel wool and sanding if posible do out side, saves clean up in shop! If not do the work over a garabage can for that part of process. 🤜🍺🍺🤛Coumbus Michigan

[@IntentionalGains]

Great video and awesome information. Enjoyed the blooper at the end too! 😂

[@michaelballard5688]

You will make a great teacher

[@georgecampbell9251]

Thank you for the good information. Well presented. Please do more videos on wood working if you can. Tony

[@professor62]

Excellent video, very helpful. Just what I was looking for! Will look forward to seeing more videos. Thank you!

[@pjtfurniture]

Thanks! Glad you like it!

[@chrisnickelson7307]

Would love to see more videos from you, I think i speak for all your subscribers. we want more more more,

[@pjtfurniture]

Thank you so much for the kind words! Unfortunately, I don't have time for the workshop right now at all, but l plan to make a video about making moulding plane irons from normal plane blades this fall.

[@oldbowsaw9001]

Great video

[@pk.finger]

Nice video, I am searching now for a while to find some of these to put them back to life

[@pjtfurniture]

Thanks! It´s really fun to restore and use such beautiful old tools, I can only recommend it.

[@makenchips]

When wire brushing do that in a baking tin or large cookie sheet pan. Then you can lay flat a scub with wire brush. Rinse in laundry tub or hose outside. Less mess and easier to brush whilethe cutters are laying flat. Just a suggetion!

[@pjtfurniture]

Good idea, thank you for that!

[@thomashverring9484]

I use a brass wire brush on a drill driver. You really need to get all of the rust removed. You make great videos! I hope you get time again to make more :^)

[@pjtfurniture]

Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed the videos!

[@thomashverring9484]

@@pjtfurniture I did indeed! And I shared them in the Rex Krueger patron community. If you ever get time or the need to make shavings again-or just talk about it-there is no better community. You just need to be a patron on Patreon. I'm quite honest (and not sponsored 😅), it's a positive and diverse place for absolute beginners and those with decades of experience. And it's way bigger than Rex Krueger himself. It's mostly community driven. Many of us interact daily on the forum and share both woodworking and life.

[@randygill953]

Just subscribed. Enjoyed the video and look forward to more of your videos on molding planes. Your finds had notch near the front that I don't see that on wooden planes in New Jersey. I agreed that planes should be useable and not sitting on shelves as display pieces.

[@pjtfurniture]

Thank you! The second part should be out in the next days. I think the notches are a typical feature of dutch planes. I live relatively close to the dutch border and buy a lot of antique tools over there.

[@alangknowles]

Check the wedges and irons are the original to the plane and not just a pair married together for a sale.

[@pjtfurniture]

Sometimes, the iron, wedge and plane body are marked with a number to keep them together during the manufacturing process. However, this is not always the case so it´s hard to know if the wedge and iron really are the original ones. But of course I check if all three pieces of a plane fit together well and, if not, I adjust or redo them. Like I said in the video, I´m not a collector, so I don´t care too much if every single piece is original. As long as the plane as a whole looks right and, more important, works well, I´m happy.

[@yellowthecrewmate4545]

I just acquired a pair of moulding planes with the same carving in the toe, same indentation along the top for the front hand, and same shape to the wedge. Do you have any on-site on age, maker, or any other history?

[@pjtfurniture]

Those characteristics are typical for Dutch plane makers. One of the biggest company was Nooitgedagt, but other manufacturers like S. van Embden share these details as well as the crown stamp above their initials, too. This website www.holzwerken.de/museum/hersteller/nooitgedagt.phtml has some information about Nooitgedagt. It's in German, but a quick online translation should do the job.

[@RuyGuyTech]

Great video! I recently moved to Germany and have been picking up woodworking. I have been wondering how to find flea markets so i can search for old woodworking tools to buy and refurbish for use, how do you find your flea markets to go to?

[@pjtfurniture]

Thanks for the positive feedback! There are several websites that list flea markets, for example meine-flohmarkt-termine.de. Hope you find some nice tools!

[@radboogie]

For de-rusting use neat vinegar mixed with a good dose of table salt - that is very effective. Or better still buy some Deox-C by Bilt Hamber - that stuff is amazing.

[@DRJMF1]

Hello. Which wooden plane is best suited to cut a rectangular groove 3/8ths inch wide in centre of a 6 inch wide board. The groove is needed to house the party bead in a box sash window. Thanks.

[@pjtfurniture]

There are grooving planes with moveable fences that work great along the grain. If you want to cut a dado (a cross grain groove), however, I found that it leaves a lot of tearout because the grooving planes I know do not have spurs (a little knife that cuts the fibres sideways in front of the main iron). Therefore, I mark the dado with a knife, saw down inside the lines and use a router plane to take out the waste. It takes some time, but leaves a crisp result without any torn fibres.

[@DRJMF1]

@@pjtfurniture thanks. Makita sp6000 plunge saw fitted with dado wide blade running on a guide fence does grooves ok but For Across the grain, Iam experimenting with a sash fillister plane fitted with a special skew blade to cut rebates. Just bought a wooden screw stem plough plane,£135, Prince Of Planes, and it’s far far superior to all metal plough planes that supposedly replaced it eg easier to set and more stable doing 2m grooves. Tools have gone down hill since 1800s. Iam making a sash window with hand tools only, no machining…..I made a nice jig to control depth of cut of a no.6 plane to get precise repeatable dimensions of stock for sash meeting rails etc. party beads will get done with the wooden plough plane..cannot recommend that tool enough.

[@TheTrashologist]

Does Using a vinegar water solution work better than straight vinegar?

[@pjtfurniture]

Yes and no, depending from where you look. Chemically, straight vinegar removes the rust quicker than the dilution, but it is also more dangerous to work with (get a good splash in the eye and you know what I mean). Because I leave the irons over night in the bath anyway, it does not matter to me if the reaction is finished at 1am or at 6am, so I go with the safer and cheaper option of the diluted vinegar. Also, the dilution is not as aggressive against the intact metal as is straight vinegar.

[@jaredbaker7230]

Don't use acids to clean metal. Use bases, as they will dissolve the corrosion without pitting the metal.

[@MoMo-t2x3x]

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[@jaredbaker7230]

Use basic solutions to remove rust, as acidic solutions pit the metal and make it more likely rust will return. Specific rust removing formulas or even basic solutions from drain cleaner are a million times better than vinegar.

[@pjtfurniture]

Thank you for that tip, I'll try it next time!