Believe it or not

[Ron Brese]

Believe it or not, soon these parts will be a plane. I assembled the body last week, and this weekend I made the iron. This plane will be a small smoother. The bed angle will be 50 degrees, I have another version of this plane coming along behind this one that will be pitched at 55 degrees.

The 1/4" thick iron will not use a cap iron and I am in hope that the user will be able to turn the iron around and use it as a scraper. The infill is a piece that I saved off the edge of a mahogany crotch flitch that I bought from Steve Wall several years ago. These parts will of course look a lot different when I'm finished and that's the fun of posting these pics now.

Ron Brese

[Ken Werner]

Looks great Ron. Keep posting the work in progress.
Ken

[Ron Brese]

Please take note of my workbench top. That's what a workbench top is supposed to look like. Believe me that is one experienced workbench top. If it could talk, if could tell some stories.

Ron

[Lars Thomas]

Ron, I'm anxiously waiting to see some more pixs of the work in progress. Lars

[Pam Niedermayer]

Is the toe the short end or the long?

Pam

[Louis Bois]

Hey Ron,

That seems a bit Presbytarian for a plane! Where's the filligree? the curves and points? the pomp and circumstance?!? Surely you could add a bit of "mother of toilet seat" inlay on there somewhere?

But I'm jumping ahead here...you're still at the early stages.

[Ron Brese]

Pam the short end is the front or toe. Louis how did you know I was a Presbyterian? I don't remember putting that in my personal profile. No inlay Louis, I like simple furniture and tools that simply function the way they should. No Pomp and circumstance for this plane. I hope to get some work done on the lever cap tonight. With no cap iron the lever cap may have a little different than usual configuration.