{"id":5718,"date":"2017-10-09T05:56:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T09:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/?p=5718"},"modified":"2021-09-19T18:52:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T22:52:16","slug":"regulator-clock-stick-mouldings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/regulator-clock-stick-mouldings\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulator Clock – Stick Mouldings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gratitude<\/a>: Matthew Bickford’s book<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The last mouldings to be shaped are only two sticks. Neither is particularly difficult. Yet both have 90\u00b0 coves. Matthew advocates the technique of using a rabbet to hog out waste and maybe more importantly provide some “guide rails” for easy control of the round plane. His suggestion is to make a rabbet with arrises about 5\/8 the width of the plane. That works for coves up to about 60\u00b0. For coves larger than 60\u00b0, he suggests using two (or more) rabbets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking a queue from the way Matthew illustrates the techniques, here are two illustrations showing the rabbet cutting schedule that removes most of the waste before reaching for a moulding plane. Brown shows the desired profile. The blues show the rabbets. There’s a turquoise pass that leaves a chamfer to guide a small hollow plane. White shows the work left for the moulding planes; not much; saves frequent sharpening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n