making round plane sole-easy!
bill tindall
>As you recall I needed a plane to gently curve the inside of a curved door frame.
I occasionally attend the local turning cub meetings. They are mostly artists and turn art. One demo was off-center turning which made some strange stuff, but I filed the technique away. Well, the "light bulb went off as to how to make the plane sole a perfect radius of any desired diameter, Just mount the plane off center in a lathe. My apprentise called in sick so I could not use the manual lathe and was forced to the alternative. I did however resist the power cross feed.
As I thought about it, this approach is just too obvious to any turner that made cabriole legs. So I wonder if this was not the way the "master" planes would have been made. It sure is a very fast, precise way to get a radiused bottom.