hand planes

Phil Just made panel rasing plane a little while back. He posted several entries about on his blogspot page. Below is the final post. I belive this plane was written up in the August issue of “The Woodworker” magazine.

http://philsville.blogspot.com/2007/06/taa-daa.html

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Lala
You got it – the groove is first made on the inside edge of the rails and stiles. Then the profile (if there is one) is applied to the edges with a moulding plane. Next chop the mortises (usually located in the groove you ploughed earlier). That completes the stiles.
The rails then have the tenons cut onto them. This leaves the final step of “coping” the edge of the moulding to fit the moulding on the stiles. This was done with a matching moulding plane or with a gouge of a suitable radius.
Obviously we are spoilt these days with router bits which will easily cut both parts of these joints. But another way to speed up this process is to make the rails and stiles without mouldings and then apply some moulding trim AFTER the door has been completed. Saves a lot of time.
Hope this helps
Phil