well, I may be doing this all the hard way, but....
some years back someone gave me a section of very old leaf spring. it sat there, implying it's carbon content with a sly wink, taking up space in my "tool steel" junk box, until a young blacksmith guy invited me over to play in his shop. I chopped off the tapered end pieces and annealed them in his forge. then they sat around for another while. then I got enthusiastic with an angle grinder and ruined the first one. today I put a few minutes into the second one, grinding the faces to flat. I have the idea that I can scrape the teeth into the flat face with a hacksaw blade held in a jig. hey, it might work... and if it does, i'll have one thick 'ol toothing blade. if I want to use it with a chipbreaker and bed it bevel down I'll have to flatten both sides, which looks like a lot of work. if I bed it bevel up I can forego the chipbreaker since the bedding angle of a toothing plane is likely going to need to be pretty high anyway.... right?
I'm a little out of my comfort zone on this one, having never actually had a toothing plane in my hands before. I understand that toothing planes come in 2 general categories, scrapers for preparing bedding for veneer and roughing planes for figured woods. I'm after the latter. any help from those who have been here before me would be much appreciated.