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AARRRGGGH! Screwed up on a plane build
So I've had this massive 6' long piece of hard maple sitting in my shop for a few months waiting for my hock blade to arrive. I'm building a 6' cooper's plane with a 3.25" iron. I finally got the iron the other day and finished up the prep work on the maple.
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This morning I laid out the mortise, and excitedly starting boring and chopping out the waste. Unfortunately I skipped an important step in the layout and chopped the full width of the iron. I didn't leave anything for cheeks! Damn!
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(ignore all the layout lines, I started scrambling after realizing my mistake to find a way to work around it)
The good news is that I only got down about an inch (the blank is 3" thick). So now I am trying to figure out what to do:
- Finish the mortise and glue in some cheeks
- Finish the mortise and use a dowel to hold the wedge.
- Move back 7 inches and start a new mortise. Then I'll need to shorten the plane by 7" and patch up the first hole I created.
- Sell all my tools and have a nice bonfire :)
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Christian