1-5/8" blade without grooves???

[Dan Schmidt]

I'm looking for a replacement plane blade which is 1-5/8" wide, has a 7/16" slot, but has NO GROOVES in the top as what seems like all block plane replacement blades have. Hock and LN both only seem to have blades of this size with grooves. Hock will cut a custom version for $65.

Of course, I did what I thought to be a good google, but so far have come up empty. Any ideas?

[Dan Schmidt]

Wow - never mind. Ron Hock just emailed me and said "your in luck, we stock some older blades like this just for this purpose." For future reference it is a "BL162, old-style".


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