I am getting set to make some bedside cabinets to match an existing
Victorian dressing table. I have done this sort of thing before, always
getting a pretty good match of original mouldings, panels and beads with a
#55 or one of my motley collection of hollows and rounds and panel
raisers. This time I have the challenge of replicating vertical stopped
flutes on the legs.

I have managed stopped flutes (or hollows or whatever a rounded groove is
called) in the past, using ordinary round planes, deepening  the shallow
ends with a gouge, getting the wobbles out with the plane blade alone, and
sandpaper wrapped around a dowell. Not a fine furniture - solution but OK
in softwood for mantle surrounds and the like.

This project is in a hardwood and I am looking for a crisp result. I have
got this far without a router and intend to stay clear of the bloody noisy
things.

The only solution that has come to my mind is that of adapting a "round"
to be a "bullnose round", so allowing me to plane up to the stop and use a
chisel on just the end. I even have some spare rounds (acquired in the
process of assembling a (nearly) full set) that I could use. Even though
they are homely, it goes against my grain to butcher them......at least
until I have canvassed other options.

So in the interests of old tool preservation, I seek other ideas.

Peter Byrne