Stanley plane 50

Back to: Tools and Tool Maintenance/Restoration8 Replies

Welcome! / Forums / General Woodworking Discussions / Tools and Tool Maintenance/Restoration / Stanley plane 50

Tagged: 

  • Author
    Posts
  • Peter Austen
    15 May 2020 at 11:50 am #661463

    Do any of you experts know if there are scotia cutters for a Stanley plane No 50 and if so where I can buy them

    YrHenSaer
    15 May 2020 at 12:27 pm #661466

    I don’t think so.

    The Stanley 50-S came with a complement of small bead cutters in addition to the ordinary plough blades, but not anything that would cut a hollow Scotia shape – certainly not at an angle if you are wanting to make a quadrant incorporating a Scotia.

    The nearest you’ll get is the Stanley 55 which could, if I recall, be contrived to cut these shapes at an angle, but it was a monumental hassle stetting them up and full sets of these are hard to find nowadays – been out of production since the last war.

    If you can obtain wooden-body round planes, (one half of a pair of hollow-and-round set) the stated radius of these is a 60 degree segment – it is possible to free-hand plane this shape into a Scotia.

    You will need a groove with a plough blade or a rebate plane, however to form the initial shape.

    Hope that this helps.

    Peter Austen
    15 May 2020 at 2:01 pm #661476

    Hey YrHenSaer

    Thanks a lot for your excellent reply. For some reason your reply tweaked something at the back of my brain and I think I can solve the problem now.

    Thanks to you and the forum, this is just what I joined up for

    best regards

    YrHenSaer
    15 May 2020 at 5:14 pm #661506

    Peter,
    No problems…..glad that some of it made sense.
    Simple mouldings are most easily made with hollows and rounds. In reality you probably only need a few of the most popular pairs coupled with a plough plane or rebate plane to do 90% of your work.
    ‘Mouldings in Practice’ by Matthew Bickford is an excellent book on how to do it all.
    Good luck

    Larry Geib
    15 May 2020 at 9:30 pm #661533

    If you want to get into moulding planes or even to get the most out of your #50, I’ll agree with Howard that Matt Bickford’s book is the definitive work. It’s main focus is how you lay out and work any moulding shape following easy steps.

    He also has a video of the same name and a very informative blog that outlines all the techniques. You just have to hunt through the archives to get it all.
    He is very generous with the info.

    http://musingsfrombigpink.blogspot.com
    ‘Big Pink’ is a reference to the old workbench he purchased which for some unknown reason was painted pink.

    YrHenSaer
    16 May 2020 at 9:39 am #661582

    ………..and I thought that The Big Pink was a very influential album……!!
    Regretfully, I never saw the Band live…… came very close, once.

    Larry Geib
    16 May 2020 at 9:43 pm #661656

    14,000 of my best friends and I saw them at Madison Sq. Garden in 1975 playing with that Zimmerman guy from Minnesota.

    mercified
    16 May 2020 at 10:48 pm #661664
    Larry Geib wrote:

    14,000 of my best friends and I saw them at Madison Sq. Garden in 1975 playing with that Zimmerman guy from Minnesota.

    🙂

    YrHenSaer
    17 May 2020 at 9:01 am #661705

    Ah, yes……

    My recollection is when Blind Boy Grunt and his outfit forsook Woodstock for the Isle Of Wight in 1969.

    I was, on that very day, sailing down the Solent en route to Le Havre…….. some distant sounds drifted over the water, though it could have been the Third Ear Band.
    However, Gauloises, Fecamp and Calvados beckoned…..

  • Author
    Posts
  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.