Just made my first plane

Toni Ciuraneta said:

Hi Mark.

You must have been reading my mind, because that was the next plane I was thinking about making

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Instead of tools, I had the Jedi mind trick powers passed down to me by Mr. Alexander.

(Not sure how universal Star Wars is - I was trying to make a humorous telepathy reference.)

Mark Kosmowski said:

Instead of tools, I had the Jedi mind trick powers passed down to me by Mr. Alexander.

(Not sure how universal Star Wars is - I was trying to make a humorous telepathy reference.)

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Come... Mark... let yourself go... come to the dark side of woodworking, you can't avoid it. Don't fight it.... You'll make wonderful planes....

toni- that plane is cocobolo-the sole is goncalo-alves the insert in front of the blade well i forget what the heck it is-some real hard wood from down south.
i didn't use the krenov method but just chopped this one out with a chisel -


when it gets sloppy eat it over the sink
alex