On Jun 5, 2:46*pm, "SonomaProducts.com" wrote:
Very cool thought. You could just cut two rabbits and then use a block
plane to do the round offs.

Yep, or keep eyes open on eBay and at estate sales. The old wood
molding planes are everywhere and they're still reasonably priced for
the most part.

That's one of the things that's "new and improved" - NOT! The old
timer's had a collection of molding planes that would work to build up
pretty much any profile. They'd grab one off of the shelf and it
would be good to go. No setting up and gauging router bits and such.
The "improvement" from the molding planes was the Stanley 55, which
was a "one tool, annoy everybody" type of tool. It took the worst
aspects of hand work and flexible use tools, and blended them into
something with an infinitely wide plane mouth. I've got a couple, but
I'm not using them for anything.

If you're doing production runs every day, production tools are way
faster, but most people aren't doing production runs, and when it
comes time to match a molding the molding planes more than hold their
own in daily usage.

R