I picked up this old moving fillister plane to test it out and see if it cuts better than my Stanley #78 that I'm not too impressed with. But since this is my first wooden body plane, I have a few questions about it.
First and probably the stupidest, how do I get the wedge out when I want to back off the blade? I get how you tap it in, but how do you tap it out?
There's no nicker, any ideas what would be the easiest thing to grind down to fit? It's about a quarter inch wide so I was thinking an old saw file or a cheap chisel. Should I just copy the nicker shape on my #78?
Last, the side opening for the shavings is very small. I noticed it's just as small on other moving fillister planes, but on regular skew rabbet planes, it's much wider. I only used the plane once on a 1ft long piece of pine and the shavings were short, almost like cross grain shavings, not long and wispy like I expected. The mouth got clogged pretty fast. This could have been from the dull blade though.
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