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I made a smaller wooden hand plane shaped like a sports car last year, and it was pretty cool if I do say so myself. So now I found myself with the desire for a longer, jointer type, hand plane and I couldn't live with myself if I just made a plain jane square block shaped plane. So I decided to make a hand plane by stretching the scale of a 1957 Chevy convertible along its length to make it a suitable for a jointer at 590mm long (~23").



Made from Redgum for the body, Tassie Oak for the interior, and Myrtle for the chrome shiny trim like the pin striping and bumper bars. It isn't perfect, loads of imperfections, but I have deliberately left them in the finished piece because I feel it gives more of a cartoony type feel rather than a clean cut perfectly finished showroom model. It reminds me of the cartoon movie "Cars" so much. I am such a big kid at heart :D

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Kuffy,

Simply amazing! Looks great and works very well from the looks of the video!
So for the next size up (I have an old plane that is about 3 feet long) I'm thinking '59 Caddy!!!
 

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Awesome looking Plane. Watch the entire video and smiled all the way though it. Glad it was done in real time and not FF to speed things up. Thanks for sharing!
 

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Lovely tool, taking art in woodworking to a new level.
 

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This is just about the coolest handplane I've ever seen…
 

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That is an extremely cool plane !!!!!! Great job
 

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Now that's pretty cool
 

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Pretty awesome man. Kudos
 

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What can I say…great creativity, craftsmanship, and shavings
 

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So for the next size up (I have an old plane that is about 3 feet long) I m thinking 59 Caddy!!!

- mikeacg
As I was building this chevy hand plane, I felt it was pretty small. I kept putting it next to my #6 just to make sure it is actually bigger, which it is by about 6" but man did it seem small. But now that it is all finished and I am using it, it's pretty big. But at 3 feet long, I possibly could make the semi-trailer hand plane that I originally wanted to make but I couldn't get the blade and throat to work well enough without simply cutting a hole in the top of the trailer which I felt would be silly.
 

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Thanks guys for all the kind comments. I had fun making it, and I am glad you were able to enjoy the photos of it.
 

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Very nice way to represent cars, and the work you did is out of this world.
 
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