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Nice write up Rick! The plane is a beaut!

Thanks Steve! It was a lot of effort. Hope everyone likes it. 🙂

Great write up! What did you use to shape the iron?

Fantastic write up!
This really shows that there is a lot of detail in the construction, you are a maven when it comes to these profile planes!

Thanks RyanGi and SplinterGroup!
I used a hand grinder with a cut off disc to hack off a piece from an old plane blade. Then I blued it, scribed the finished outline on it, and rough cut to that line again with hand grinder. Then with a fine stone in my bench grinder I did the final shaping. Then this is what was put into the plane and out the bottom for me to scribe the bead and quirk. Used files, slips, 600 and 1200 wet sandpaper. All this before doing the bottom on stones as mentioned above in the post. 

Do you like the "look" of it? The Aesthetics? Design?

Certainly!
The wood combo really makes it stand out from the mono-wood planes that seem common. I can see that being used to help the eye spot the plane for the job versus picking through a shelf full of similar bodies.

That was my thought too when I designed it SplinterGroup. Glad you like it!

Nice. Thanks for the info. Looking good!

You're welcome RyanGi !

Pottz!....I had no clue you looked like this! LOL!! 👍😉

Nice job, looks great as well.

Thanks MikeB_UK!

Well done write up Rick. 

Thanks GeorgeWest 👍

"Why use molding planes?" - I agree 110%. Great work you do, well thought out and beautifully executed. 

Thanks Oldtool!