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The US dean of plane making is Larry Williams, of Old Street tools ( formerly Clark and Williams)
He has a dvd Lie Neilsen sells that is a must r making traditional planes
https://www.lie-nielsen.com/product/home-education-videos/making-traditional-side-escapement-planes?node=4252
And Mathew Bickford has a great book on using them called Mouldings in Practice, printed by Lost Art Press.
Mouldings in Practice
He has a blog http://musingsfrombigpink.blogspot.com/2017/
That is a font of information on getting started, so you can delay the book a little. You’ll eventually get it though, lol.
And the Roubo style is a bit easier mostly because it doesn’t require plane floats, which can run a couple hundred for a set.
popular Woodworking Magazine’s April 2016 issue has a complete article by Caleb James on building them with just a half dozen tools you probably already have. ( maybe not the 1/8”chisel, but I built the first one using a piece of O1 steel as a scraper and the saw in my Leatherman tool – great for reaching into the mouth).
His blog has a pdf of the article I built my planes from, the difference being I didn’t use the French counoured profile and stuck with English traditional boxy.
It’s basically like Paul’s method for his poor man’s rebate plane.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qlqt5rbtzizeyv2/RouboH%26Rs.pdf?dl=0
It’s the first link on this page.
https://calebjamesmaker.com/learn/
He also has free plans for making several other planes on that same page.
Look throug both those guy’s Blogs, there’s tons of good stuff there.
Both James and Bickford credit the Williams dvd for getting them started.
And James has even made Roubo style profile Planes like this one.