I made myself a built up 1/2 inch rebate plane out of some salvaged pallet wood. It acts like hickory the way it works.

IT WORKS, and doesn't look bad either.

1. after roughing out the wedge and sawing the main part for the blade, I glued the left side to the main body, then putting the wedge and temporary iron (a 1/2" 45 blade) in place, I glued the front part of the main body to the left side.




2. I ripped the left side which was the same thickness as the center part in half and glued the ripped half to the the body.


3. I cut the ends flush and worked the sole down smooth and ripped off some of the top so the iron is exposed.

4. I spent about 4 minutes honing the cutter sharp. It is one of a set I picked up years ago from a tool place, that he collected 45's and he dumped all the blades in a container and I could pick out what I wanted for $.50 a blade. So I got a full set, He must have had at least 200 45 main bodies in a bin. The iron needed a bit of work as someone tried to sharpen it and really messed it up.

It came out looking like this.



I used a back saw to make 2 cuts 1/2 wide, used a 3/8 chisel to pop our some of the waste so the trial run would not wonder around and the initial cut was really a treat to do.



Now to put some danish oil on it after tapering the chip hole so it will clean itself and then when it warms up to forge a proper iron for it.

This project has really got me going. Now I will make bodies for 1/4, 3/8 and 3/4 irons.

I really like the smaller size compared to a normal woody rebate plane.

Excellent! That did turn out well. That will have to go on my todo list.

Excellent! Well done indeed.

Hi irnsrgn, fantastic work that you done. I appreciate of your technique and information. It's really amazing to me.

Thanks!