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@tedcolorado, your intentions are good but I think this toothing plane line of thinking is a dead end.
1. It uses a hacksaw blade, hardly ideal for rip cutting wood;
2. It is unfenced, so you’re basically freehand following your line – exactly what you’d be doing anyway. Granted you could work out a way to fence it fairly easily, but then you’re making a disposable plane for every resaw or working out how to make one with an adjustable fence;
3. Saws are designed to cut wood; along the length of the cut, even carefully cut kerfs would be too shallow to compensate for bad technique
I can understand how a genuine kerfing plane might help once in a while, on very wide boards, but its duties might just as well be carried out with a tenon saw, guided with a strip of wood if you must, or by learning to carefully following your lines.
I apologise if that sounds a bit harsh, but I don’t think the direction of the discussion was helpful.
Matt