Marples-Style Hybrid Plane.
This was inspired by a design that William Marples came up with in the 1960s. I've long known of these planes existence but for all that they are common enough for me to be able to have one any time I put my hand in my pocket they are rare enough for me to have to dig deeper than I'm willing to.
I chanced upon a video on YouTube by Rex Krueger where he made one, though he upped the size to try-plane length. That got me interested and a bit of looking lead me to an article on Instructables. This in turn references a blog article by Paul Sellers which has since been deleted. It can however be seen on archive.org, not that it says much.
Plane frogs are not all created equal. I found an Acorn one was wholly unsuitable, at least without access to machinery. You may also find that the blade won't advance far enough, in which case you'll have to cut a small rebate at the end of the sole to lower the frog or that it can't be withdrawn far enough so it will need a thin block fitting between the frog and sole.
Mine is made from the maple frames of old kitchen unit doors and works very nicely.
The plans I used, translated from the original French, and cutting templates for the handle and sides are available as a PDF here.
I chanced upon a video on YouTube by Rex Krueger where he made one, though he upped the size to try-plane length. That got me interested and a bit of looking lead me to an article on Instructables. This in turn references a blog article by Paul Sellers which has since been deleted. It can however be seen on archive.org, not that it says much.
Plane frogs are not all created equal. I found an Acorn one was wholly unsuitable, at least without access to machinery. You may also find that the blade won't advance far enough, in which case you'll have to cut a small rebate at the end of the sole to lower the frog or that it can't be withdrawn far enough so it will need a thin block fitting between the frog and sole.
Mine is made from the maple frames of old kitchen unit doors and works very nicely.
The plans I used, translated from the original French, and cutting templates for the handle and sides are available as a PDF here.