Very pleased to have sourced this rare plane. Now I finally have it in my hand, it’s very interesting indeed. It’s a ‘bead cluster’, or ‘cluster bead’, depending on who you’re talking to. The iron cuts a series of stepped rounds, piled on top of one another, probably best shown by this picture I found on the web.
I’m already a fan of John Moseley, largely due to the London connection, but also because his planes are so precise and well-made. I would like to know more about how and where the moulding this plane produces is used. I figure in fine casework certainly. Perhaps over a shutting joint, where one might have used a rebated astragal or similar, this would give an elegant alternative?
Any info gratefully received. At the price I paid for this, I won’t be posting any pictures of the plane in use, which goes totally against my philosophy of tools having to be used. Ho-hum, you make rules, you break them.
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2 replies on “John Moseley ‘bead cluster’ plane”
Very nice plane, it would be nice to see the moulding it produces, maybe you will post a picture of the moulding it produces, dont see a plane with this profile very often and as you say by a quality maker,
I really like the boxwood insert to the plane, bet the iron takes some fine tuning skill rquired there.
Gary
Hi Gary,
it would be something like this:
http://tinyurl.com/aylmy5v
However, I’ll need a stiff drink before I have a go with my plane, I spent more than I wanted to, on this one!