Dr. Trout Bum wrote:
PS - did you make your forms or buy them?
I bought my planing forms.
There is a tutorial on the internet that tells you how to make your own forms. It is a lot of work. Access to some metal working machinery would help....or even better, a machinist with the necessary tooling.
Even with that, you really need to know what you are after. The machining has to be quite precise from flattening and squaring the bars, down to cutting the tapered grooves.
I could have made a set with the help of a co-worker who has a pretty impressive machine shop.
But in the end, I don't think I would have been satisfied with the end result. I'm pretty anal about that sort of thing.
I decided to buy planing forms from Bellinger. After doing my homework, I decided that the Bellinger swelled butt planing forms were the ones that I wanted. They weren't cheap but I could justify the cost by the features, precision, and attention to detail that those forms have.