A couple of wood planes restored.

I bought these 2 wood planes for 99 cents on ebay. Add $4 shipping and for less than $5 i figured the blades would be worth the cost id the planes didn’t work out. I wasn’t to optimistic when they arrived, but they turned out better than I anticipated. They work really well. I had some problems with my first wood plane restore trying to get it to work properly. I didn’t have the same problem with these. These work really well for jack planes.

The first was the easiest. The wedge that came with it didn’t fit. I think it was actually the blade that was different, making the wedge wrong, but making a wedge seemed like the best thing to do. The blade needed a lot of work as well. It took a couple of days of off and on sharpening to finally get the dings out of it. Its sharp now and actually works better than I expected it to.

The second I didn’t even plan to restore. But, it sat on the shelf calling my name, so I decided to give it a try. The body is made out of cherry. Since it didn’t have a tote or a wedge I decided to make the tote, the wedge and the front knob out of scrap pieces of ash.

All in all I’m pretty happy with the outcome. I’ll be on the look out for some more 99 cent specials.

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