Mouldings in Practice

Mouldings in Practice by Matthew Sheldon Bickford explains how to make mouldings in a simple way that the publisher had never encountered, either in print or from an instructor. The book turns a set of complicated mouldings into a series of predictable rabbets and chamfers that guide your hollow and round planes to make anything that has been made in the past or that you can envision for your future projects.

Mouldings in Practice is accessible for even the beginning hand-tool woodworker. It uses more than 200 color illustrations and dozens of photos to explain how to lay out, prepare for and cut any moulding you can draw.

The first half of the book is focused on how to make the tools function, including the tools that help the hollow and round planes, such as the plow and the rabbet. Matt also covers snipe bills and side rounds so you know their role in making mouldings. Once you understand how rabbets and chamfers guide the planes, Matt shows you how to execute the mouldings for eight Connecticut River Valley period projects using photos and step-by-step illustrations and instruction.

The book has a full index by Suzanne Ellison, plus appendices on fixing up old moulding planes, building a sticking board and how to capture moulding profiles in the wild.

Published by Lost Art Press and produced entirely in the United States. Color illustrations with black-and-white photos, printed on acid-free paper. Sewn binding, hardbound and covered with cotton.