How to make a Molding plane Live Part 2

Tonight we are making a molding plane. This will be a dovetail plane to help with making sliding dovetails. tonight we will be working on the escapement and some of the shaping. This is the second part in what will probably be 4 live sessions.

00:00:00 James Wright: What are we going to do today?
08:00 Josh Babin: ​we need an in-depth discussion of plane floats, including history...
11:00 S Ritchie: ​Would you happen to know what the best wood to make a saw handle out would be?
25:00 Don Nicholas: ​What is. The hole on the right side of your vice.
27:00 Alan Smith: ​Sarah - is he using a side float, edge float or bed float?
28:00 Nick L: ​what's the bedding angle? 45?
30:00 Wildman Tech: Is there a difference between a float and a Riffler? And is it Riffler like riff, or rifler like rifle?
36:00 Cryogenic Potatoes: what exactly is the plane you are making used for?
42:00 The Poor Man: can a float have curves instead of straight lines?
45:00 Mick hail: ​Are you on Makers Playground?
45:00 Clay Foreman: ​Wait, so is it possible to make your own floats?
47:00 The Poor Man: ​so now I need to find a special tool, any hints at what it may be called? would help round down the search
53:00 Brent Lehmann: what is the correct way to start say an ogee curve moulding plane?
54:00 Mick hail: ​Where is the best place to find leather for vices? What is the best leather for vices?
55:00 S Ritchie: ​What the best way to work with a burl?

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[rick]

Years ago, in another village, the 75 year old newly retired cabinet maker(did everything and anything from coffins to putting up barn roofs, ) told me the first thing new apprentices would do in France was make all their molding planes, blades included...I bought about antique 30 planes in a garage sale years ago for 40 Euros. Just nice to have them in the shop to show folks....cheers...rr Normandy, Fra.

[thomasgronek]

It appears fairly easy to make a float, There is a guy building an Antikythera mechanism on you tube, and he shows (throughout the videos), how to make files, and other ancient hand tools of that nature. Yes, a pain, but it's not about saving money, it's about building a custom tool for specific tasks. God bless my father, and you. I have a bunch of 'odd-ball' tools, some of which I had no idea of what they were used for, until I watched your videos, a float is one of those. Of the several I have, one has curved teeth, and the surface is also convex, (I still have to figure that out).

[arkansasboy]

Can you do a video sometime showing how to carve some different shapes into the sole?

[joshuaodear]

Why not cut the rabbit on top for clearance and then use a crosscut saw to establish the bed and wedge planes to help facilitate removing the material?

[rodrigomeza]

How difficult would it be to adapt / modify an older wooden plane?

[clydedecker]

Seriously more SARAH!!! She's always right!!!

[LegoMan-czmn]

Do those planemakers floats need any set? they are really neat.. I need one, or two ;0 (or at least I want one)

[storjoel]

Just a thought, how about laminating the bottom after making the opening so that you can use chisels from both directions initially?

[BillSmithem]

Shots, like the bit at 18:40, would work a lot better with an additional light source. Can't see much there except darkness. An LED flashlight would suffice.

[josephlathrop]

How do you make a Plane with no A LOT of Sanding