I got this wooden plane on an online auction site, was a few euros so I felt like taking the chance. It is very long, 75cm or almost 30 inches. When it arrived earlier this week I cleaned it up with tung oil, steel wool and some sandpaper:
Iron:
First issue, cracked in the cheek. I have been thinking of gluing it tight but I am not sure a glue joint alone will suffice. Ideas I've had on this is drilling a deep hole and driving in a glue covered dowel to ensure it stays in place. Another idea I have is to simply predrill and sink a wooden screw into the plane to help hold the piece in place. Any of these sound plausible to you?
The last issue is this dutchman, pretty bad fix by the original owners. The plan is to remove it, but then what? The mouth is pretty big, can I just make a slightly larger one to make it smaller, or should I perhaps remove the whole area and fit a bigger dutchman over the mouth and all, then cut a new mouth from above with chisels? And no nails like this one has..