Plane Making

References & Notes

How to Build an Infill Plane: A Step-by-Step Guide for Building a 9" and 6 1/2" Curved Smoother, Bruce Neville. Self-published, YEAR?.

Contains step-by-step photographs as well as technical drawings for the construction of an infill smoother. The text is minimal—largely captions—but the photographs are plentiful and clearly illustrate the steps.
Infill Planes: Spiers, Norris, Mathieson, Preston, Hans Brunner. YEAR?.
Making & Modifying Woodworking Tools, Jim Kingshott. Lewes, UK: Guild of Master Craftsman Publications Ltd, 1992.

A fantastic intermediate level look at constructing infill planes (and a few other tools!) Assumes a good deal of pre-existing skill, but includes drawings taken from antiques for various Spiers and Norris planes.
Scottish and English Metal Planes Manufactured by Stewart Spiers and Manufactured by T. Norris & Son, Kenneth Roberts. K. Roberts Publishing Co., 1991. ISBN 0913602698.

Making Traditional Side Escapement Planes, Larry Williams. Lie-Nielsen Toolworks, 2007.

The definitive resource for a full description of making traditional molding planes and their irons.

Side Escapement Molding Planes – Construction Notes, A. W. Gibbs. 2022.

A currently incomplete polishing of my construction notes and illustrations from my first molding plane build.

Through Much Tribulation: Stewart Spiers and the Planemakers of Ayr, Nigel Lampert. Victoria: Oliver Publications, 1999. ISBN 064636426X.

Limited edition of 1000 copies, hard to find.