Keeping each of these planes at the same state of progress is making forward progress to completion painfully slow.
From here;
To here;
The locking mechanism on each box has been done. (the outer brass keeper plate will be installed later on.)
At present; mortising out each box to form the planes escarpment. The side of the box that faces the blade bed will be reshaped later on to form the wedge abutments.
Stewie;