I was planing on making my planes this way, however there seems to be a wide spread agreement against it. and I like to know if this is more traditional or actual.
some of the problems that rose are:
1. glue creep - but the plane can be pinned with dowel, also guitar heads are often connected to the neck using only a scraf joint, and they will last as long as the guitar goes even with a constant 80-90lb pull. so why not a plane.
2. different movements in various parts - if I built the plane by ripping a piece and gluing in back?
3. they don't last long.... why?
a point also came up that laminated planes can be make out of many hardwoods to good effect because there isn't much demand on the wood, is that referring to the wedge? and isn't that a good thing?
what advantage is there to a soild body plane? I'll consider it but it needs to be worth buying floats and stuff. I'm also concerned about wood movement with 1 soild piece, am I wrong?
I think this should be an interesting discussion - if there aren’t tomatoes thrown at me....