A good book is 'Making Traditional Wooden Planes' by Joh Whelan (Astragal
Press). Looks like you can get one new from Amazon(!) or  AbeBooks has used
copies for between $20 and $25.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Heyza  
Sent: Monday, December 6, 2021 3:20 PM
To: 'Frank Filippone' ; 'Tools Old' 
Subject: RE: [oldtools] Moulding Plane question,,,, Specifically, how do the
wedges fit?

Frank,

Flatsawn is fine. Fitting for a dado plane is a little trickier due to the
skewed iron. What you want is good contact across the length of the iron and a
tight fit front to back (no wobble).

Dennis Heyza
New Baltimore MI

-----Original Message-----
From: oldtools@g...  On Behalf Of Frank Filippone
Sent: Monday, December 6, 2021 2:08 PM
To: Tools Old 
Subject: Re: [oldtools] Moulding Plane question,,,, Specifically, how do the
wedges fit?

Thanks for the confirmation, Kirk and Matthew.  .... I have 2 planes, and 1 set
of wedges.... On the wedges I do have, they seem to fit not so well.  They jerk
when tapped in place.  I think the problem is the thickness, so now that I snow
I can take off a shaving on the width ( which will also flatten the wedge a bit,
as the problem may be warpage of the wedge rather than too thick.)

The original wedges will act as a starting pattern for the missing ones....

last (?) question:  what is the proper grain orientation for the wedges?  I seem
to think that quarter sawn would be the best.... flat sawn the worst....

This is as looking at the flat side of the wedge....

Sorry that I do not have a book to help me on this... can anyone name a
reference book that would help me?

Frank Filippone

BMWRed735i@G...