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Well, while on a Road trip, saw a place selling firewood by the chunk...50 cents. Thought about it, turned around and went....shopping. Dropped five dimes into the cash box, and got back into the van with a chunk of.....Ash? Oak? Not too sure. Measured at 11/4 thick! 7" wide, by 12" long. Might get some use out of it? First up, a bit of hacking away with a hatchet But in order to use this thing, I needed to sharpen it up. The chunk under it is the live edge, aka bark. With bug tracks too. Got the four sides about flat, maybe, and made a mess on the floor, again.. Then tried a larger plane to get the edges flat and square to each other Note that plane? The rear handle will be a pattern of sorts, later. Got out the scrub planes, and worked on the faces, to get them flat and coplanar to each other, and MAYBE square to the edges until I had a block like this But it was still way too thick. Laid a line around all four edges, roughly in the center of the thickness. Grabbed a VINTAGE saw, and set it at full depth of cut. Cut all four edges But it wasn't quite deep enough. Grabbed the hatchet, again, and used it as a splitting maul.. Until I had two blanks that needed a little clean up. with a jack plane. Then some layout against that try plane's tote. A forstner bit took care of the internal cut out, and the scrollsaw did the outside work. Placed the Pattern onto the try plane to check out Ok, most of the pattern is done. Still need to dig out the dovetailed bottom out of the other try plane, add it the this pattern, and cut out the actual tote. Then shaped it down, and add it to the old plane. That is the plan, so far....
