Hi All,
I'm considering adding a#46 to the till for an old-school furniture project. I've been researching them as much as I can online but there were a couple questions that I couldn't resolve. Any help would be appreciated.
Question one is whether there are preferred types. Bench planes seem to have a long stretch of quality but the combination planes changed quite a bit. I'm particularly interested to know if the guard era (1-7) matters compared to the fence era (8-up) planes. The second question is if the arm spacing is the same so I can add a later fence to an older plane.
I'll be shopping on Ebay. Getting a set of cutters would be nice but I don't mind grinding some O1 steel to make ones I know I'll need. I'd probably only use two or three of a set anyway. If my studies are right, this never came with a 3/4" cutter and I could easily whip-out some undersized plywood sizes at the same time.
Thanks for looking, Skip