I’ve been playing with the idea of making a wooden plane for a while and decided to start with a small block plane to replace my vintage Millers Falls No. 57. The alternative would be to buy a Lie-Nielsen #60 1/2 but those little wonders are expensive….
I want it to be a low angle plane but making a wooden plane with a 12º bed is out of question, the body would be too thin to handle the strain, so I decided to take a different approach and instead of making a bevel up plane this will have the blade resting with the bevel down on a 37º bed. Continue reading this post…
