Interesting Way To Repair a Plane Iron

[Mark R Webster]

Had to share this:
I recently picked up a No 6 and and as I was cleaning it up.... a large corner of the iron fell off. I looked a little closer and saw that someone had actually glued the corner on If you look at the pics you can see the glue hanging off of "joint". I will give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they thought the plane would sell better if a large corner wasn't missing from the iron and that they weren't really planning to use it in that condition? Anyway I got the plane for a good price and I can grind the iron back. It was just a "new idea" on how to fix a plane iron for me....