use for semi-dud smoothing plane?

Boat anchor? ;-)

-- Only the Shadow knows....................

Paper weight?

-- Kent Shepherd * The goal is-----More Tools!

Doorstop?

-- Don, Pittsburgh

while these are all wonderfully creative, i was thinking about something a little more… conventional ;-)

Really, I would tune it up just for the fun of it. It’s a great feeling to take a piece of junk and actually make it cut well. I know it can be done. I especially enjoy taking on old beat up wooden plane and see thin curls coming off. It always helps to have multiple planes anyway. I leave some set for thick cuts, and some for fine. That way I’m not constantly going back and forth. I frequently use cheaper planes for rougher work.

Maybe this is a better answer.

-- Kent Shepherd * The goal is-----More Tools!

Perhaps donating it to a new woodworker just staring up. I always read and hear of stories about people using their grandfathers or great grandfathers hand planes like the tool is a right of passage into developing basic skills. This seems like a perfect opportunity to dontate a tool that will help create a new woodworker and teach them some of the important skills involved with hand tools.

hmm. i guess i’ll go with kent’s suggestion. i could use it for all the odd jobs i’ve been putting my block plane through.