I’ve started out making my 1st plane. It’s designed to cut on a very shallow plane, of just 35°. But the angle it’ll cut will be a 45° bevel.
There’s a deal more to be done on it. And it may not even work. It’s my first try at such a thing!
Above: checking the table saw for square. Pretty good. I butchered an old chisel, to get the cutting iron.
Having cut the wood, I glued it all together. It’s a kind of ‘jazz’ design, inasmuch as it’s improvised.
The plane is basically dimensioned, the iron roughly shaped, and the (?) shaped. I painted some Rustin’s pre-stain on it. Let that dry, a d then put a layer of linseed oil on.
That’s where she’s at for now… The iron doesn’t come all the way through, to the sole. But that’s intentional. I need to cut a triangle in the base, the iron will protrude through, into that right angle, thereby cutting the bevel.