Thank you sir for all you do. You truly are a national treasure of the art/craft, sharing your skills, wisdom and experience in the trade. Thanks to you and others, the tradition is very clearly in good hands. Even if not into woodworking, others will still find your videos interesting, just learning how trades people were able to make such fine furniture centuries ago, without all the power tools.

Graham out here sharing his experience both (in-essence) distilling entire volumes such as John M Whelan’s “The Wooden Plane: Its History, Form, and Function” into more manageable bits and then going above and beyond. My mind exploded when he explained how to sharpen the blade. I was made familiar with spring angle by Whelan, slowly learned about spring lines from others, and now Graham bringing it home with how to sharpen them. Finally! The whole system has been explained by someone that knows! Thank you so much for this Graham!

Mr. Blackburn. I congratulate you on the music of the presentation... from Argentina I enjoy seeing your spectacular tools

Thanks Graham - Another great video that i thorougly enjoyed watching.

Amazing, thanks for sharing your years of knowledge with us.

I appreciate the uncomplicated approach to woodworking that you seem to subscribe to. It doesn't need to be rocket science. Thank you for helping making my woodworking more fun.

That answered a lot of questions, concise, to the point and very informative, thank you sir.

Thank you Graham, that was extremely fascinating. I’m keen to acquire some and put them back into service.

Mr.Blackburn really gives great insight when he does his presentations , there's not a lot of unnecessary distraction jumping tangents.

The irons for molding planes seems to be the same sharpening category as carving chisels: never let them get duller than you can fix with a strop.

I was an Apprentice carpenter and joiner back in the early 90's, I've learnt many woodworking tips. But yet here I am learning about the the spring line. Many thanks.

Beautiful, thanks for sharing.

This is an excellent teaching video! I’ve learned sooo much about the proper use of the old hand wooden planes. Someday we may need to know this stuff the way the world seems to be going.

I love my moulding planes, there are two especially that I always reach for and use whenever I can! Thanks for another great video :)

Graham I have spent many hours on a sticking board we used to make mouldings for coffins etc

Great information! Thanks Graham.

Very interesting and informative Graham... I've never come across any old wooden planes, let alone one that dates back to 1764...what a privilege it must be to use such an old and still fit for purpose tool. Great content!

Graham, your channel is phenomenal. Well done.

What a gem - my latest favourite channel. Good job!

Sir, THANK YOU for making this channel!

Great video! "Submitted"!

Thank you for answering my question Graham!

Love your videos. I ve started to watch from video no 1 and work my way through all the proceeding catalogue. I learn something every time. Sharpening the back of a moulding plane, I wondered about this, now I know. Thanks

Brilliant. This is just what youtube needed.thanks so much for sharing with us your knowledge. 👍

Thank You Graham.... I very much enjoy all of your shows. I like, subscribe and share... TM

Great explanation and demonstration. Thank you, Ed

Really nice presentation. Thank you

Thank you for the information.

Good information, good teaching.

Great share. Thank you.

Great that you now are publishing higher-definition videos.

Splendid explanation 👌

thanks graham i have learnt lots from you

Thank you !

Thank you for showing how to sharpen them! I wondered how it was done, but as I don't have any of these styles of planes it was never a priority to investigate.

Wow, moulding planes are suddenly less intimidating, thank you!

Wonderful explanation

Moulding planes are neat! I only have one French style one like what Andre Roubo described in his books with the iron inside a groove in the side of the body, but it works well! It has no spring angle, despite cutting an ogee shape but I’d like to make a copy of it sometime, but with a spring angle to make it a little easier to use. Thanks for the video on their use!

Great video. I have a few of these to better sharpen and generally restore, nice to get a few tips before mucking about lol

Excellent video! Thank you very much :^)

The sharpen the back edge makes a lot more sense to me than the often heard (in modern times) "The whole job has to be done before you resharpen a moulding plane."

Thanks

Thanks for this interesting upload. How, though, do you deal with a plane which has a misshapen blade?

Would love to get into planing, but it looks like you have ALL of them. Great video

Love these videos. I’m getting in using some moulding planes. Have one that is constantly choking up. Blade is sharp and contours match. Can the opening between the blade and mouth be too big ? Thanks

thank you Graham, that was a great little lesson. if you have a chance could you talk about those “speciality planes”, SVP. i have a couple of “grooving” planes, the ones with the metal rails, and can’t seem to get it to do its job. any hands-on guidance you could offer would be much appreciated.

That was informative. I have been lucky enough to buy a Stanley 55. Would you do a video on the 55. There are limited videos showing how to set it up. I think you could add significantly to the topic. Thank you

Heĺlo Mr. Blackburn. I like your videos so much. I don't understand the last part. Could you explain to me please why it is not nessesary to sharpen both sides of the plane iron like I have to do with the irons e.g. of Jack planes?

Thank you Sir. I’m 58 and in retirement I plan to do more wood working. I have access to old kitchen knives. I would assume I could use those knives to make molding planes? I love your videos. Thanks for making them.

Thank you for all these tips and tricks. There's a world to know. One thing: could you pls explain the difference between a mould and a bead? For me it's kind of the same....

My new moulding plane is sitting on the shelf almost year because it's iron doesn't match the sole.

Weel, i have a question 😄 by sharpening a part of thé back, thé thickness of that sharped part of thé back of thé iron will differ from thé other part. Isn't it a problèm?

I have health issues that makes my left hand very limited, almost to the point my right does everything, my question is; can I get away with using pretty much 1 hand?

Jump from Rex Krueger yt channel, i subscribed

Please save yourself the trouble of ruining your molding irons and learn how to sharpen the entire profile, not just the back. If you continue to sharpen only the back, you will eventually ruin your irons

The flat of a moulding is a quirk, as we discussed last week. I'd argue that a beading plane (I've just used one for two hours, making a whole heap of cock-bead stock for some desk drawers) is a type of moulding plane. It doesn't much matter. Your sharpening advice is fine for irons which have been properly sharpened over the years, but so many I get my hands on have been butchered by people who don't know what they are doing, so a video on restoring their profile to that of the plane would be handy for most people, I think. It's actually somewhat tricky to re-shape the iron without damaging the sole of the plane in the process, as you'd know, so it would be interesting to see how you do it.