Quote Originally Posted by Ron foley View Post
At a garage sale this weekend a man gave me 5 hand planes. {stanley No.2 a No. 4 a Sargent 3416 and a busted stanley 62. there is a skewed wooden rabbet plane. None of these planes have seen use in a looong time. the puzzling fact about the four metal planes was that the cutters were installed bevel up. understanding the 62 would be correct BUT the other three IMO would make the cutting angle about 60 plus degrees. that would put them into more of a scraping action rather than cutting. It is a mystery as to why someone would use them in this manner. Any ideas????. Sorry have no pictures as I have disassembled each for a cleaning.

As odd as it sounds, I read an article a few years back that spoke of creating a scraper plane doing just that. As I recall the author converted a beater #4 and made a dedicated scraper by grinding a 45° angle on the iron. The result was a 90° iron to workpiece condition. I've never tried it.